German leader meets pro-Putin Russian MPs

   The head of the right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany, AfD, Frauke Petry, has held talks in Moscow with MPs close to President Vladimir Putin and with Russian ultra-nationalists.

  She met State Duma Speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin and his deputy Pyotr Tolstoy.
  German officials have warned that Russia could try to influence voting in September's general election.
   The AfD campaigns against the "Islamisation" of Germany.
Firebrand nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky was among the MPs who met Petry.
  His Liberal Democratic Party is politically close to United Russia, the pro-Putin party that dominates Russian politics.
  The AfD opposes Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal immigration policy and her tough stance on Russia, therefore calling for a new understanding with Moscow.