A German newspaper reported that Russia had agreed to the replacement of the FRG ambassador.
According to Spiegel, citing the German diplomatic service, Russia has expressed its readiness to receive a new German ambassador to Moscow this summer. He will be the deputy head of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the Bundestag, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.
The Foreign Ministry of Germany said that the Russian government gave its permission, the so-called aggreman - the prior consent to receive a diplomat.
A spokesman for the German Foreign Office noted that Lambsdorf will assume his new post this summer.
In late 2022, some German newspapers, citing sources in the Cabinet Office, reported that in 2023, German Ambassador in Moscow Gez Andreas von Geir will be replaced by Lambsdorff.