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Germany's Merkel: Don't link Navalny case to pipeline plan

by Associated Press
| August 28, 2020 5:03 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has a duty to do what it can to help get to the bottom of the apparent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but she argued that the issue shouldn't be linked to the fate of a German-Russian gas pipeline project whose completion the U.S. wants to prevent.

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