| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - an honest broker.At a NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, Merkel refused to bow to pressure from Bush and other leaders to put Georgia and Ukraine on track for membership in the Western military alliance, a move the German leader knew would infuriate Putin.However, she sided with Russia in abstaining from the 2011 UN vote authorizing intervention in Libya and pleased Putin with her sharp public cri
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