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A Russian anti-war activist says German intelligence tried to recruit her at a Berlin airport and that she was later barred from the Schengen area after refusing. The account comes from Andrei Pivovarov, a representative of the Consuls of the Russian Anti-War Committee, as reported by Meduza, and has not been independently confirmed. Pivovarov said BND representatives invited the woman to a conversation after passport control and asked her to sign a cooperation agreement, which she refused. Meduza reported it is unclear whether the two events are directly linked. The independent outlet Agentstvo reported the airport incident happened several months earlier, and that the activist learned of the ban only when she next tried to enter the Schengen area, in another country, through a document naming Germany as the initiator and citing a "threat to national security". Holod and iStories had earlier reported several similar airport conversations about Russia and the war in Ukraine, and German police said the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution handles this work. Under Russian law, confidential cooperation with foreign states against Russia's security carries up to eight years in prison.