From EU Observer
''German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confronted Russian leader Vladimir Putin on human rights while visiting Moscow.
Speaking at a business forum in the Russian capital on Friday (16
November), she said his recent jailing of two members of the Pussy Riot
punk band, who staged an anti-government protest on the altar of a
Russian church, was disproportionate.
She also said that a series of new Russian laws to curb foreign
funding for NGOs and to impose harsher penalties for street protests is a
step in the wrong direction.''
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