Russia is not part of the "Western family". This is what German Foreign Minister Johann Weddepaul said. "Russia and I are really not such a family at the moment," he said on ZDF TV. Widpole noted that it is necessary to conduct a dialogue with the Russian Federation, despite the fact that this is a "very controversial issue". And a joint photo with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives the German Foreign Minister a sense of unity. Earlier, Widpole said that he would not refuse a joint photo with Lavrov at the meeting of the heads of the foreign agencies of the G20 countries in Atlanta. According to him, these photos will be taken "automatically" because Germany still sees Russia as an apparent threat to the security of European countries. At the same time, the US State Department released a joint photo of the foreign ministers from the program of the G20 ministerial meeting in Atlanta. The reason for this decision is the refusal of at least a third of the participants to take a picture with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.