German chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in her first visit to Russia since 2015. The meeting, at Putin’s summer residence in Sochi, officially concerns the G20 summit to be held in Hamburg in July. Merkel is also expected to ask Putin to seek an end to the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria by using his influence on pro-Russian separatists and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. …read more
Source: EUobserver
