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- Gerhard Schröder attended Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday at the Kremlin, shaking hands beside a samovar.
- Putin learned on the morning of October 7 that Schröder had arrived in Moscow and invited him home.
- Schröder recently joined the supervisory board of Russian supermarket chain Hyperglobus.
- Putin suggested in May that Schröder could represent European countries in Ukraine peace talks, though foreign ministers rejected the idea.