Germany rallies behind lawmaker, stages protest
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow, Russia. REUTERS PHOTO/GRIGORY DUKOR
BY ERIK KIRSCHBAUM
Reuters
BERLIN – Germany formally protested to Russia Monday over Moscow’s refusal to let a conservative German lawmaker into the country, a decision the Foreign Ministry criticized as unacceptable amid East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis.
Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and head of the German-Ukraine parliamentary group, had called Russia a “war-monger” earlier this year for what he said was its support of separatist forces in Ukraine.
Wellmann, who has called for tougher sanctions against …read more
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