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Reuters: Merkel, Putin clash over Navalny on her last trip to Russia

By Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, August 20, 2021. - The trip will be the 20th and last visit to Russia for Angela Merkel as German Chancellor, who bows out of politics following an election in Germany on September 26, 2021. (Photo by Evgeny ODINOKOV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday used her final official visit to Russia to tell President Vladimir Putin to free Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, but the Kremlin leader rebuffed her, saying the jailing was unrelated to politics.

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