Chancellor Scholz did not have the PCR test carried out by his Russian hosts.
(Photo: dpa)
A long, long table – at which the conversation partners sit so far apart that one instinctively asks oneself how far communication is possible in purely spatial terms? A picture of the speechlessness between Russia and Western politicians, who are making a pilgrimage to the Kremlin these days to avert the war in Ukraine from escalating.
But there is another reason for the distance: distrust. The fear of DNA theft during the corona test travels with Vladimir Putin’s visitors to the Kremlin. French President Emmanuel Macron has refused to take a test with the Russian hosts ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz felt the same way when he arrived in Moscow. After landing in Moscow, he had the PCR test, which the Kremlin requires for entry, carried out by a doctor from the German embassy.
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