German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confronted Russian leader Vladimir Putin on human rights while visiting Moscow.
Speaking at a business forum in the Russian capital on Friday (16 November), she said his recent jailing of two members of the Pussy Riot punk band, who staged an anti-government protest on the altar of a Russian church, was disproportionate.
She also said that a series of new Russian laws to curb foreign funding for NGOs and to impose harsher penalties for street ...
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