Saturday, September 10, 2016

The pariah is coming in from the cold



Two years ago President Putin was close to pariah status in the international community — or, at least, the West. According to a new book by the journalist Mikhail Zygar, All the Kremlin’s Men, reality bit for the Russian leader at the G20 summit in Brisbane in November 2014. Spurned by world leaders because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea that year, he lunched almost alone on one occasion, with only President Rousseff of Brazil joining him.


Fast-forward and Mr Putin appears to be calling the shots again. On Monday he teased a one-on-one meeting out of a surly President Obama…

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