“BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss German concerns about Russia’s presidential vote during talks on Saturday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his newly elected successor Dmitry Medvedev. Merkel is the first foreign leader to visit Moscow since Medvedev was elected to replace Putin in a Sunday vote that was criticized as neither free nor fair by observers and opposition groups.”
This is, of course, the same Angela Merkel who orchestrated the arrangements under which the EU’s leaders are reviving the rejected EU Constitution, arrangements that have enabled most of them to avoid the bother of having to consult those pesky voters of theirs. That’s not, I should stress, to argue that democracy within the EU has degenerated to the extent that it has within Russia. It’s obviously a long, long way from that. Merkel’s hypocrisy is, nevertheless, breathtaking, and is just another reminder that she is a politician who, quite clearly, learned rather too much from her years in East Germany.
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