Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended meetings of Russian representatives with members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, some factions of which have been classified as far-right extremist. “We will cooperate with all those who want to cooperate with Russia,” Putin said on Wednesday at a press conference with major international news agencies, including dpa, in St Petersburg. “We see no signs of neo-Nazism in the actions of the AfD,” the Kremlin leader added. On a past visit to Moscow, AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla was received by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov like…