The delegation of the Prime Minister of Bavaria Horst Seehofer plans to visit Moscow and meet with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports DW.

"It is impossible to extinguish the hotbeds of tension in different parts of the world without Russia," said Seehofer, who visited Moscow in February 2016 and held a speech in favor of lifting sanctions against the Kremlin. His visits were criticized in Germany by many politicians, who assessed them as a political attack against the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.