The Kremlin shares German Chancellor Angela Merkel's opinion that the progress on implementing the Minsk agreements is negligible and believes Kiev should be encouraged to comply with the deals, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his working visit to the country, where they discussed illegal migration, political and economic cooperation, regional security and defense, as well as energy and the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, according to a statement on the president's website

Armin Laschet, the German candidate for chancellor from the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, demanded on Saturday that his Social Democrat rival, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, apologize for his statements about the recent raid on the German Finance Ministry