Under personal communication, the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts turns to Russian President Vladimir Putin to “you”. This was told to reporters by the official representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany Steffen Hyberstraight.
“The federal chancellor with the Russian president is not on” you “, but to” you “, – explained Hyberstraight.
He also noted that the appeal to the “you”, which once used Scholz, urging Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine, was a “rhetorical figure” to “call him to this.” The representative of the Cabinet of Ministers emphasized that this was the requirement that the Chancellor repeated over the “last weeks and months.”
The journalists also asked why Scholts, speaking of the Russian president recently, uses only his last name, but does not mention his state status.
“If you noticed this, I do not want to convince you. However, I would not make any judgments regarding the title of Vladimir Putin by the federal government,” said HybersTrate.