For more than a decade Vladimir Putin has presided over two yearly sessions of the Valdai Discussion Group, that covers a wide range of issues of interest to the international community from different Russian cities, in addition to the yearly economic forum known as SPIEF which has been held in St.Petersburg since 1997, coming under the Russian Presidency in 2005.
These fora draw hundreds of high level professionals every year, but they would only be half as effective without president Putin’s regular meetings with foreign leaders across the globe. When the American press criticises Donald Trump for ‘cosying up to foreign leaders’, they show that they haven’t a clue as to what diplomacy is about.
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