Read on here for our roundup of the top headlines from and about Germany  on Saturday, May 16, 2026: The Kremlin's envoy for Russia's business relations with other countries, Kirill Dmitriev, has hailed the results of a survey showing high popularity ratings for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. "The AfD became HOPE for the Germans," he wrote on X as a comment to a posting by AfD co-leader Alice Weidel with the survey results. Dmitriev