{"id":1006,"date":"2025-06-11T03:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:00:22","slug":"russian-journalist-claims-germany-seized-passports-of-his-wife-and-daughter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/russian-journalist-claims-germany-seized-passports-of-his-wife-and-daughter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian journalist claims Germany seized passports of his wife and daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sergey Feoktistov had been ordered to leave the country as part of sanctions imposed on Russian media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has condemned the treatment of Sergey Feoktistov, the bureau head for Rossiya Segodnya in Berlin, after the journalist claimed that German police had seized the passports of his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"802\">The EU imposed sanctions on Rossiya Segodnya in 2023, accusing the Russian state-owned agency of spreading <em>\u201cdisinformation\u201d<\/em> about the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"1084\">Earlier this month, the German authorities declined to renew Feoktistov\u2019s residency permit and gave him until August 19 to leave the country or face deportation. According to the journalist, he flew to Berlin on Friday to help his family move but was barred from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPolice came to the apartment where I used to live with my family \u2013 and where my wife and seven-year-old daughter still live \u2013 and confiscated their passports. They claimed that my wife and daughter might go into hiding to evade the order to leave Germany by August 19,\u201d<\/em> Feoktistov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: People are seen in Riga, Latvia.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/68402bb985f54044d2592f41.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/618630-latvia-russian-tv-channels-arrest\/\">Man arrested in EU state for providing Russian TV access<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following Feoktistov\u2019s claim, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Germany of <em>\u201ctargeting journalists and media outlets\u201d<\/em> in an effort to <em>\u201ceradicate alternative points of view.\u201d<\/em> Rossiya Segodnya chief Dmitry Kiselyov said Germany is preparing the public for <em>\u201ca war with Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, the EU has banned a number of Russian media organizations, including RT and Sputnik, and blacklisted their staff. Moscow has responded with retaliatory sanctions on several Western journalists and blocked access to certain media outlets, including German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Feoktistov had been ordered to leave the country as part of sanctions imposed on Russian media Russia has condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}