# German intelligence tried to recruit a Russian activist at Berlin airport, anti-war group says. She refused — and was later barred from entering the Schengen area.

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/german-intelligence-tried-to-recruit-a-russian-activist-at-berlin-airport-anti-war-group-says-she-refused-and-was-later-barred-from-entering-the-schengen-area/
- Published: 2026-11-12T08:30:49+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T09:22:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Meduza
- Original article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/12/german-intelligence-tried-to-recruit-a-russian-activist-at-berlin-airport-anti-war-group-says-she-refused-and-was-later-barred-from-entering-the-schengen-area
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- A Russian activist reportedly refused a German intelligence request to cooperate.
- She was later barred from entering the Schengen area.
- The alleged link between the two events is unconfirmed.

## Summary

A Russian activist was reportedly asked by German intelligence to sign an agreement to cooperate after arriving at a Berlin airport, then later barred from entering the Schengen area. The account comes from Andrei Pivovarov of the Russian Anti-War Committee’s Consuls and has not been independently confirmed; it is also unclear whether the reported approach was connected to the ban.

The activist learned of the ban when she tried to enter the Schengen area through another country, where a document named Germany as its initiator and cited a “threat to national security”. Investigative outlets have reported other cases of Russians being invited to airport conversations about Russia and the war in Ukraine; German police said the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution handles this work. Under Russian law, confidential cooperation with a foreign state directed against Russia’s security can carry up to eight years in prison.

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