Schröder met in Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Palace onMon afternoon with a Ukrainian delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, a Ukrainian MP who took part in the recent cease-fire talks with Moscow in Belarus. (Umerov has not commented on Schröder’s initiative.)
/Merkel could see what was brewing in Moscow and was always openly critical with regards to the shrinking space for opposition in Russia, and tried to implement a second track, a tougher policy, namely in 2014/15. But she had to reconcile this with the dominant first track.
9/29 “Deutsche Welle also reports that members of Mr Schroeder's former party, the Social Democrats (SPD), feared he could have contributed to their disastrous showing in recent federal elections. It describes party members as "incensed".”
9/29 “Schroeder was added to the company's board during a shareholders meeting in St. Petersburg on September 29. The meeting also expanded the board from nine members to 11 and added Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak as well.”
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9/29 “Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder has been elected to the board of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft, ” その後 BREAKING - Schröder announced as Chairman of board of directors at Rosneft