Update: Merz currently 'step away from agony,' which makes him sting AfD — Russian legislator

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The available account reports that leonid Slutsky noted that Friedrich Merz found himself in this situation because of his own short-sightedness and "pursuit of a Russophobic policy to the detriment of the national interests of Germans"

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