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Former German Chancellor, Chairman of the Rosneft Board of Directors Gerhard Schroeder will sue the German newspaper Bild for an interview with Alexei Navalny. In an interview, the opponent said that Schroeder received secret payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Former Chancellor of Germany, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rosneft“ Gerhard Schroeder bwill sue the Bild newspaper for an interview with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Der Tagesspiegel reports on this on October 7.
In an interview published Oct. 6, Navalny called Schroeder “an errand boy for [президента России Владимира] Putin “.
According to Navalny, Schroeder received secret payments from the President of the Russian Federation. However, the politician noted that he had no supporting documents about the payments.
Schroeder called Navalny’s statements false, noting that Bild released the information without asking for comment.
The former foreign minister said he will demand that other media publish excerpts from the interviews.
In September 2017, at the invitation of Rosneft’s director Igor Sechin, Schroeder headed the company’s board of directors. Later Sechin called Schroeder “the most loyal German leader” to Russia, writes RBC. The former German Chancellor was re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors several times Rosneft, last June 2020. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nord Stream 2 AG (the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline).
Schroeder he often makes pro-Russian statements. In early May, he called for the lifting of sanctions against Russia and said that no Russian president would agree to return annexed Crimea to Ukraine. Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnik repliedthat Crimea “will certainly return to the womb of mother Ukraine” during Schroeder’s life.
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