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Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
/ ˌpɒməˈreɪnɪə /
noun
- a state of NE Germany, along the Baltic coast: consists of the former state of Mecklenburg and those parts of W Pomerania not incorporated into Poland after World War II: part of East Germany until 1990. Pop: 1 732 000 (2003 est)
Example Sentences
“We see Russia’s influence on European politics in the microcosm of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania,” said Claudia Müller, a Green lawmaker from the state.
In October 2014, seven months after Russia illegally annexed Crimea, Mr. Sellering, then governor of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, hosted the state’s first “Russia Day.”
Less than two weeks later, Mr. Warnig, by now the chief executive of Nord Stream 2, pulled up outside the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania state house, carrying a bouquet.
Mr. Schröder’s conservative successor, Angela Merkel, whose constituency was in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, approved Nord Stream 2 after Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea, and defended it even after Moscow hacked the German Parliament, assassinated a Chechen rebel in central Berlin and poisoned the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
Neither of them spoke out against it, nor apparently minded as Moscow invested generously in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and reactivated Cold War networks, including former spies, to deliver on the pipeline.
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