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Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) continues to consider sanctions against Russia to be wrong.
It is absolutely right that the European Union and Germany are demanding the rule of law, he said on Thursday with a view to the EU's restrictions on the imprisonment of the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny.
"But that doesn't change the fact that the sanctions have no effect, that they are circumvented in many ways and therefore have no future as a political instrument."
All East German Prime Ministers are of the opinion that they should be abolished.
If the corona pandemic allows, Kretschmer wants to travel to Moscow in April to open a joint exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Dresden State Art Collections on Romanticism.
He would then take the opportunity to talk to representatives of Russian civil society and the opposition, but also to those of the administration.
"We have to talk to each other again and not about each other."
Why the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) repeatedly strikes "hard and tough notes" is incomprehensible to him.
The foreign minister should rather ensure balance in his office.
Kretschmer met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019 on the sidelines of a business meeting in St. Petersburg and had already questioned the Russia sanctions.
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The exhibition "Dreams of Freedom - Romanticism in Russia and Germany" had to be postponed due to the pandemic and is now to open in Moscow on April 22nd.
It will later be shown in Dresden.
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