“I think that from this side we need to see that we want to have good strategic relations with Russia, I constantly talked about this, but this should not shut our eyes to reality,” RIA Novosti quotes Merkel.
In particular, she stressed, bilateral relations are complicated by the incident with Alexei Navalny and insufficient, according to her, progress in the Minsk process on Donbass.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at a meeting with a delegation of the German party "Alternative for Germany", noted that relations between Moscow and Berlin need to be rethought and reset.