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“Relations thaw in Siberia,” reads the Süddeutsche Zeitung headline next to a photo of Angela Merkel and Dmitri Medvedev. Reporting on the 15 July meeting between the German Chancellor and the Russian President in Yekaterinburg, the Munich daily reports that both leaders “appeared to be the best of friends.” Merkel, who gets on better with Medvedev than she does with Putin, has offered to help with Russian modernisation programmes in health care, wind energy and regional transportation. In response,the Russians have generously agreed to purchase 2.2 billion euros worth of trains from Siemens.
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