German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Germany on Saturday, August 18, and will discuss , among other things, the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and other energy issues, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. The German chancellor will host the Russian president in her residence north of Berlin next Saturday for a meeting, at which the two leaders will discuss ongoing foreign policy issues, says the statement from the German government. According to Seibert, the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 will be on the agenda of talks, as well as the gas transit via Ukraine, the situation in eastern Ukraine, and the conflict in Syria, the Associated Press reports. The Gazprom-led highly controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project , which is planned to twin the existing Nord Stream natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, is […]