The German government has announced the appointment of a new ambassador in Moscow, after securing the approval of the Russian government. Leading Germany’s diplomatic mission in Russia has become among the most complicated posts, since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Earlier this year, Russia expelled a number of German diplomats, claiming the move was in response to a similar one from Berlin. The new ambassador hails from a family of aristocrats. Moreover, his uncle Otto Graf Lambsdorff was a long-serving minister and a seasoned politician in the 1970s and 1980s. How cn you rate Germany-Russia relationship after Ukraine invasion ?

