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Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors are studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city's Steglitz district, police said.
The device was found on Friday and investigators are looking into how dangerous it had been and who it was aimed at, a Berlin police spokesman said in response to an enquiry. He added that there would be further updates later on Saturday.
Russia's embassy in Berlin said a bottle had been thrown through a window of the apartment block on Friday evening, and that an improvised bomb had been found in the subsequent search, which it said German sappers had identified and deactivated.
The Russian state-run RIA news agency said it had journalists living in the block.
Russia's foreign ministry demanded on Saturday that authorities in Germany and other European Union and NATO states take steps to protect Russian journalists and their families abroad.
"We see this as a direct consequence of the harassment of Russia media and their employees unleashed in the West," its statement said. "The politicised decision to disconnect Russian media from the airwaves in the European Union was the precursor to their physical intimidation, right up to their elimination."
State-controlled Russian outlets RT and Sputnik were banned throughout the European Union on March 2.
（Reuters）
