Germany protests Russia's ejection of conservative MP from Moscow


  • World
  • Monday, 25 May 2015

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany formally protested to Russia on Monday over Moscow's refusal to let a conservative German lawmaker into the country, a decision the Foreign Ministry criticised as unacceptable amid East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis.

Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and chairman of the German-Ukraine parliamentary group, had called Russia a "war-monger" earlier this year for its perceived support of separatists in Ukraine.

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