格哈德·施罗德在周三访问了全新超市连锁品牌“Hyperglobus”位于莫斯科的分店之一，此前几天他刚被任命为该连锁的监事会成员。
Gerhard Schröder visited one of the Moscow branches of the new Hyperglobus supermarket chain on Wednesday, a few days after being named a member of its supervisory board.
俄罗斯电视台的画面显示，该分店的员工以长时间的掌声欢迎这位前德国总理及其现任妻子索延·施罗德-金。
Russian TV footage showed employees at the branch greeting the former German chancellor and his current wife, So-yeon Schröder-Kim, with sustained applause.
施罗德目前或与近期与一系列俄罗斯企业以及总统弗拉基米尔·普京存在关联，而这些问题近年来在德国变得愈发敏感，尤其是在2022年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰之后。那么，Hyperglobus与德国有何关联？
Schröder has current or recent links to a series of Russian businesses and to President Vladimir Putin issues that have become increasingly contentious in Germany in recent years, particularly since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 What is Hyperglobus' link to Germany?
这家全新的俄罗斯超市连锁品牌Hyperglobus于去年从德国的Globus Holding公司拆分而出。
The new Russian supermarket chain Hyperglobus was spun off from Germany's Globus Holding last year.
上周，Hyperglobus宣布施罗德已被任命为监事会成员。该超市连锁确认，这位前总理兼社会民主党人于周三访问了位于莫斯科西郊的一家分店。
Last week, Hyperglobus announced that Schröder had been appointed to the supervisory board. The supermarket confirmed that the former chancellor and Social Democrat had visited a branch on the western outskirts of Moscow on Wednesday.
俄罗斯RBC电视台援引施罗德的话称：“我非常高兴能来到这里，看到这家出色的超级市场，见证你们工作的成果，并见到各位优秀的同事。”
"I'm very pleased to be here, to see this wonderful hypermarket, to see the results of your work and to meet you, my wonderful colleagues," RBC television in Russia quoted Schröder as saying.
据报道，施罗德上周还呼吁，在乌克兰战争爆发以来实施制裁的背景下，俄罗斯与德国等国之间应继续维持现有的贸易关系。
Schröder also reportedly called last week for the continuation of remaining trade ties between Russia and countries like Germany amid the sanctions imposed since the start of the war in Ukraine.
俄罗斯RBK报纸报道称，他上周五表示：“正是在这样的危机时期，这些联系才显得尤为重要：它们能让我们彼此倾听，并寻找前进的道路。”施罗德、普京、俄罗斯与乌克兰之间到底有何关系？
"It is exactly in these crisis times that these ties are especially important: they allow us to hear each other and look for ways forward," newspaper RBK reported him as saying last Friday. What's the deal with Schröder, Putin, Russia and Ukraine?
早在施罗德还在任期间，他与普京的密切关系就已受到 scrutiny，尤其是在2004年，当时他在回应记者提问时表示，是的，他认为普京是一位“无可挑剔的民主人士”。
Schröder's close ties to Putin came under scrutiny even while he was still in office, not least in 2004 when Schröder responded to a question from a reporter by saying that, yes, he believed Putin was a "flawless democrat" or .
即便是在22年前，这一说法在许多人眼中就已令人难以置信——尤其是在反对派团体或饱受战争蹂躏的车臣地区。
Even 22 years ago, this assertion strained credulity in many eyes — not least among opposition groups or in war-torn Chechnya.
退出政坛后，施罗德与克里姆林宫保持着密切关系，并担任了一系列高级职务，其中最著名的或许是在能源巨头俄罗斯石油公司（Rosneft）的董事会任职，而在此之前，他还曾担任由俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司（Gazprom）控股的“北溪”天然气管道项目董事会成员。
On leaving politics, Schröder kept close ties to the Kremlin and took up a series of senior roles, perhaps most famously on the board of the Rosneft energy giant and before that on the board of the Nord Stream gas pipeline project that was majority owned by Gazprom.
2014年，克里米亚被吞并不久后，乌克兰爆发了由俄罗斯支持的内战。当时，施罗德作为“北溪”项目的贵宾到访圣彼得堡，并以奢华的方式庆祝了自己的70岁生日。
In 2014, not long after the annexation of Crimea and as a Russian-backed civil war brewed in Ukraine, Schröder was Nord Stream's guest of honor in St. Petersburg, where he celebrated his 70th birthday in lavish style.
四年后，在一场被西方许多人批评为近乎虚假的选举之后，施罗德在2018年普京第四次总统任期的克里姆林宫就职典礼上占据了重要位置（见上图）。
Four years later, after an election many in the West decried as bordering on a sham, Schröder took a prominent place at the 2018 swearing-in ceremony for Putin's fourth presidential term at the Kremlin (pictured above).
现已故的俄罗斯反对派领袖阿列克谢·纳瓦利内曾称施罗德是普京的“跑腿小弟”。2024年，施罗德被剥夺了原本通常会提供给前总理的政府资助办公室和工作人员，理由是他在政府中的前任职位已不再履行任何相关义务。
Now-deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny once said Schröder was Putin's "errand boy." In 2024, Schröder was stripped of a state-funded office and staff— typically provided to former chancellors — on the basis that he was no longer fulfilling any obligations tied to his previous role in government.
他所所属的中左翼社会民主党曾多次试图将其开除出党。但每次尝试都未能达到法律规定的严苛标准，因此他仍然是该党成员——他于1963年加入该党。
His party, the center-left Social Democrats, tried on several occasions to eject him as a member. Each attempt failed to clear the high legal bars required, and he remains a member, having joined in 1963.
普京经常将他提议为俄罗斯、乌克兰和欧洲之间可能的和平调解人，而施罗德本人也表达了愿意承担这一角色的意愿。然而现实是，除了俄罗斯之外，他很可能完全无法被其他各方接受为调解人，尤其对乌克兰而言更是如此。
Putin has often suggested him as a possible peace mediator between Russia, Ukraine and Europe— with Schröder also expressing a willingness to take on the role — even though the reality is he would likely be entirely unacceptable as a mediator to all parties other than Russia, and particularly to Ukraine.
为何普京会求助于这位前德国总理担任和平调解人 要观看此视频，以及
Why Putin turned to ex‑German chancellor as a peace broker