Putin's Poodle.

• Author: Engelen, K.

A heavy burden on the ruling SPD comes from its former chancellor Gerhard Schroder, who seventeen years ago became Putin's man in Germany and a close friend of the Russian president. Schroder is still in upper management positions in Russia's energy companies and making a lot of money. Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief of the New York Times, in a rare interview published in April...