The German magazine, Der Spiegel, has reported that foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met a lawyer representing jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky during a recent visit to Moscow.
The report said Steinmeier had discussed the possibility of getting Khodorkovsky transferred to Moscow from his Siberian jail, where he is serving an eight-year term. Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 in what is widely regarded as a Kremlin campaign to punish him for his political ambitions. A Berlin government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel would discuss a range of issues with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when he visits Germany next week but declined to say if Khodorkovsky's case would figure in the talks.
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