Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Presidents Obama and Trump, and says she asked herself whether ...

Angela Merkel has accused Vladimir Putin of enjoying her discomfort after the Russian president brought his pet Labrador into a meeting despite her fear of dogs. Following the pair's first meeting ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Friday for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from prison on the one-year anniversary of his near-fatal poisoning.

BERLIN, August 16. /TASS/. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s upcoming talks with the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may signal that the head of the ...

What is wrong with Russian President Vladimir Putin or which one among his subordinates is responsible for a public relations ...

It is the fourth consecutive year that Putin is at the top of the list. He is followed by Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The rest of Forbes' Top Ten, in order, are Chinese President Xi ...

Russia and Putin, Merkel’s memoir reveals, were unparalleled sources of fascination and trepidation for her. She fondly recounts her first visit to Siberia as chancellor, when Putin served her a ...

Merkel’s meeting with Putin may bring countries closer together — German Committee SOCHI, May 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev have held a brief ...

But don’t mistake her matronly demeanor for softness: Merkel has stood up firmly to Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin, who once tormented his cynophobic German counterpart by bringing his ...

There was evidence Putin played psychological games with German chancellor Angela Merkel, for example. In a 2007 meeting in Sochi in which they discussed energy supplies to Europe, the Russian ...

Merkel had already emerged as the indispensable player in managing Europe’s serial debt crises; she also led the West’s response to Vladimir Putin’s creeping theft of Ukraine. But now the ...