Marcus Wolf, the East German intelligence operative who managed to put a Soviet spy in West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's bed, isn't much impressed by Vladimir Putin. Mr. Wolf scoffed at Mr. Putin's claim that he lived in Dresden for 15 years as the liaison between the Soviet KGB and Communist East Germany's spies. Mr. Putin couldn't have been that important, he said, if he had not known him.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/4/editorial-living-with-putin/
Hidden by pine forests near the deserted site of what was once East Germany’s biggest nuclear reactor, two shiny pipelines emerge from the Baltic Sea to mark the spot where Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to secure the country’s energy future.
Exxon Mobil and other energy companies have joined President Trump in expressing concerns over a bill to toughen sanctions on Russia, arguing that it could shut down oil and gas projects around the world that involve Russian partners.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/oil-giants-lobby-against-bill-to-toughen-russia-sanctions-1499114749
http://carnegie.ru/2017/07/04/ru-pub-71436
https://ru.krymr.com/a/28594382.html
http://www.ng.ru/politics/2017-07-04/1_7021_kudrin.html
http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2017/07/04/595a606a9a794708abbccdf8
http://www.ng.ru/economics/2017-07-04/4_7021_crisis.html