Like Rihanna, Russia is pulling a surprise on the international stage.

More than 25 years after the Berlin Wall's fall, Russian lawmakers are mulling a proposal to condemn West Germany's 1990 "annexation" of East Germany as Moscow's answer to Western denunciation of its seizure of Crimea.

Sergei Naryshkin, speaker of Russian parliament's lower house, on Wednesday ordered legislators to consider an appeal from a Communist Party deputy to denounce the reunification of Germany as an illegal land grab of East Germany by its western neighbour.

The collapse of Socialist rule in East Germany - officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) - heralded the end of the Cold War, and was met with jubilation in the West.

But the Communist lawmaker sponsoring the proposal argued the absorption of the GDR - a Soviet Union satellite since the end of WWII - into a unified Germany in October 1990 was illegal.

"Unlike Crimea, a referendum was not conducted in the German Democratic Republic," Nikolai Ivanov was quoted saying before the Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma.

http://m.thelocal.de/20150128/russia...cation-illegal

All of Russia's kindness is taken for weakness ;(. They're about fourfiveseconds from wildin'

the attempT.

so now on recession, they want it back? eek

One thing is for sure, when Putin steps back in four or five years, he will never travel to the western world

again, because almost everywhere, prosecuters would try to get him.

Can someone just assassinate Putin please and thank you

there was no mention of Rihanna in the article though

yeah good luck

I know, that's promo. I can't quote with my phone.

Russia needs to be wiped from this planet or Putin needs a bullet.

Mess.

Angela won't be having any of it

Let me perch for Angela's clapback

Of course, cage us again.

Don't dare to touch our beautiful Berlin again!

Putin needs to step back and shut the **** up.

Don't you build up that wall
We been through that before
But I'll be damned if I see another brick in his arms

Putin knows East Germany well. He was working for the KGB in East Berlin, the night the Berlin Wall came down. And now the KGB run Russia.

Let me not list the illegal land grabs of the Soviet Union and its follow up flop state the Russian federation.