3 Apr 2014 17:40

Moscow considers pseudo-historical insights of German finance minister to be provocative - Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has made a presentation to the German ambassador in Moscow due to statements of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who compared Crimea's accession to Russia with the occupation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions by Nazi Germany in 1938.

"We consider such pseudo-historical insights by the German minister to be provocative," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"The German ambassador in Moscow made a relevant representation in the Russian Foreign Ministry today," the document said.