MOSCOW: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was posted as a KGB agent in Dresden under communism, has said he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, in an interview on Sunday. Putin said in the interview with the NTV channel that he had good memories of his 1985-1990 posting in the city that included learning German, excursions to the mountains and contacts with his East German counterparts. “I still remember this warmth and cordiality,” he said in the interview for a documentary film to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall two decades ago, excerpts of which were published by all Russia’s main news agencies. “I am very thankful for this. In this respect there is some feeling of nostalgia. “But we see how the Federal Republic (post-reunification Germany) is developing and we are happy that we have good relations on a new basis,” he said.