AdvertisementWhy Putin's Pal, Germany's Ex-Chancellor Schroeder, Isn't On A Sanctions ListApril 18, 2018Soraya Sarhaddi NelsonfacebookEmailFormer German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (left) and Russia's then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting with employees of the Portovaya gas compressor station outside Vyborg, in western Russia, in September 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti)