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Germany’s Foreign Office confirmed on Friday that there are a “low double-digit number of people” with German citizenship still being held in Russia. A “single-digit number of Germans” are also being held in Belarus, the Foreign Office said on Friday. The Russian authorities have been refusing to allow the German diplomatic mission to visit prisoners who have both Russian and German citizenship for around two years. “They treat people with Russian and another nationality exclusively as Russian citizens,” the Foreign Office said, adding that Germany did not share this view and was endeavouring …

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