German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is the first high-level statesman to visit Russia after the change of power in the Kremlin.
He begins his five-day trip in Yekaterinburg where he is to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. He then travels to Moscow and St. Petersburg. No meetings have yet been set with new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. On Monday, Putin presented his new cabinet to the president. A large number of key cabinet members would retain their posts, including the foreign, defence, finance, and US and Russian sailors stage sandwich-making battle ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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