A German opposition politician has slammed former chancellor Gerhard Schröder for his ongoing support for Russia and failure to distance himself from Moscow. Schröder, who was Germany’s chancellor from 1998 to 2005, heads the supervisory board of the Russian state energy giant Rosneft and chairs the shareholders’ committee of the pipeline company Nord Stream. He has faced growing censure in Germany and abroad for maintaining his business connections to Russia and failing to offer any criticism of Putin in the wake of his country’s invasion of Ukraine. Bavarian Premier Markus Söder slammed Schr…