German expert Schroeder, who arrived in Moscow at the invitation of the Higher School of Economics, was detained in Domodedovo

Russian border guards at the Domodedovo Airport did not allow the expert of the Berlin Foundation "Science and Politics" (SWP) of Hans-Henning Shreder into the country. The head of the group of researchers of Russia had to spend the night at the airport in the same cell with illegal migrants from Central Asia and the South Caucasus. On Thursday, he was forced to return to his homeland.

The 62-year-old German expert arrived in the capital of Russia at the invitation of the Moscow Higher School of Economics. He received an entrance visa at the Russian embassy in Berlin. Schroeder was supposed to take part in a conference on the topic "The values ​​of Russians and Germans - a comparative analysis."

The Russian authorities did not report the reasons for the unexpected ban on the entry of a German expert, DW-World notes with reference to the DPA agency.

In an interview with Der Spiegel, Schroeder said: "The border guard looked at me warily and asked me to follow him." The border guards allegedly referred to the fact that he is an undesirable person, "posing a threat to security."

“Moscow is not the first time not letting Western experts and correspondents who write about Russia, despite the actual visa. In early February,” the German edition of Inopressa quotes, “the then correspondent of the British Guardian was also detained at the Domodedovo airport at crossing the border. Luke Harding analyzed for publication for publication Wikileaks ". According to the Moscow Center for Extreme Journalism, the Russian authorities banned the entry of approximately 40 journalists from 2000 to 2007.

However, as Spiegel writes, unlike the same Harding, Schroeder never made direct attacks on the Kremlin, and his comments and analytical publications are considered balanced.

According to the head of the Moscow Bureau of Friedrich, Ebert Raingard Krumma, he is unpleasantly struck by the news of the detention of Schrief. The German Embassy in Moscow and the Office of Chancellor in Berlin have already joined this matter.

Recall that the expert in the Russian Federation Hans-Henning Schroeder, widely known in Germany and in Russia, often comments on the political events taking place in the Russian Federation.

In the summer of this year, he predicted that "the members of the ruling tandem will not violate their promise and will not execute each other in the struggle for the presidency."

And when the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Germanyrefused to present the German Prize of Quadriga, Schroeder welcomed this decision, saying that he was concerned about the fact that the award of the award could be interpreted by Russian elites as German Putin’s support in the next year’s presidential campaign.

Hans Schroeder repeatedly stated that despite the fact that confidence in Putin among Russian citizens is invariably great, the state and the government demonstrate the records of unpopularity. “If Putin leaves the stage or loses its attractive power, then the political system will lose its“ borrowed “legitimacy,” Schroeder believes.

Touching on the Russian economy, the expert noted that, being one of the largest in the world, "has an export structure of the third world country." In August of this year, he wrote that "if oil prices continue to fall, this may significantly affect the Russian economy, the national currency and public finances will be under the blow." He noted that "reforms in the field of services and manufacturing were strangled by high oil prices."

A few days ago, in an interview with Radio “Freedom” , speaking about the prospects for the democratic development of Russia, Hans-Henning Schroeder said that “much in Russia will depend on the next six years on how many problems of the civil society of self-organization and initiative will be resolved by tops.”

“As earlier under Putin, and in recent years, under Medvedev, every attempt to make a policy was suppressed out of fear, as if not to miss the likeness of the“ Orange Revolution ”in Ukraine. If this is how it will go, but the probability of this is very high, then in the next six and, most likely, nothing will happen for 12 years,” said Shreder.