Russia shuts German cultural centres amid rising tensions

Europe's standoff with Moscow just sharpened. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Germany's Goethe-Institut cultural centres in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg will shut — a retaliatory move after Berlin's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul accused Russian leadership of being behind an explosives-laden drone found near a Ukrainian plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport.