Word: rahr
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...Alexander Rahr, a Russian expert at Germany's Council on Foreign Relations, suggests that the business lobby played a large role in Merkel's "dramatic" climbdown from her outright endorsement of Georgia's NATO membership in Tbilisi last month to her softer stance in Brussels. John Kornblum, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who is now the chairman of the German unit of investment bank Lazard, says that while he opposes sanctions himself, Germany's tolerant attitude toward Russia goes even deeper. "Germans are very, very ready to take the Russians' side," he says. "This crisis will make the appeasers...
...Europe, where turmoil could be costly and disruptive. Not surprisingly, "we have a realistic partnership with Russia, with good cooperation on economic matters," says Ruprecht Polenz, head of the Bundestag's foreign-affairs committee. "When you have good cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward Russia because then how can she defend German business?" Yet even Merkel, raised in East Germany, publicly criticized repression...