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2:02Now PlayingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Russia Friday to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan, the separatist conflict in Ukraine and Moscow's treatment of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, among other issues.
Merkel's visit to Moscow comes as she is nearing the end of her almost 16-year-long leadership of Germany.
Despite sharp differences, she has maintained close contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for more than two decades.
"I am very, very glad, with all the differences of opinion that we have today, between Russia and the German government, that we are talking to each other, and today's visit was about exactly that," Merkel said after her meeting with Putin in the Kremlin.
"And It was a constructive conversation, a conversation that highlighted differences, but also approaches for common solutions that we want to find," she said.
Merkel visited Russia on the anniversary of Navalny's falling gravely ill on a plane over Siberia on Aug. 20, 2020.
At his wife's insistence, he was flown for medical treatment to Germany, where officials said tests revealed he had been poisoned with a Soviet-developed nerve agent.
"I have once again called on the Russian President to release Alexei Navalny, and I have also made it clear that we will stay on the case," said Merkel.
Navalny, who is Putin's most outspoken critic, spent five months in Germany recuperating from the poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin - an accusation that Russian authorities reject.
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