Such a policy has been advocated on the German side since the beginning of the 2000s, first by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD), and later by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). On the Russian side, then as now - Vladimir Putin. Even when Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, business continued: the agreement to build the Nord Stream 2 direct gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which bypassed Ukraine as a transit country, w…
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Such a policy has been advocated on the German side since the beginning of the 2000s, first by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD), and later by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). On the Russian side, then as now - Vladimir Putin. Even when Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, business continued: the agreement to build the Nord Stream 2 direct gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which bypassed Ukraine as a transit country, w…