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Reuters: Merkel’s Bavarian ally calls for quick end to Russian sanctions

Published Jan. 29, 2017. Updated Jan. 29 at 5:39 am

Volker Kauder (L), parliamentary group leader of the conservative CDU/CSU, CSU parliamentary group leader Gerda Hasselfeldt (C) and Bavaria's State Premier Horst Seehofer (R) attend the state funeral for late German President Roman Herzog on Jan. 24 at the Berliner Dom Cathedral in Berlin.

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BERLIN — The leader of Bavaria’s sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats called for ending sanctions imposed against Russia by Europe and the United States for its invasion of Crimea and its military actions in Ukraine.

The sanctions should be lifted this year, Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CDU), told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in an interview to be published on Sunday.

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