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Putin says Macron stopped calling him
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Before the war in Ukraine, Macron cast himself as a negotiator between the West and Russia — the French president traveled to Moscow weeks before Russia’s invasion in a last-ditch effort to de-escalate tensions.
Photos of Macron sitting at the opposite end of a long table in the Kremlin became a much-shared meme and an ominous foreboding of Putin’s unwillingness to negotiate.
On Thursday, in a Q&A with the press and public, a journalist from the French channel TF1 asked Putin about the current state of the two leaders’ relationship.
Putin said they had enjoyed a “quite good working relationship and we were ready to cooperate with France further” on bilateral and global issues.
Earlier during the marathon Q&A session, Putin was more complimentary of Slovakia’s Robert Fico and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, whom he described as “not pro-Russian, but pro-national” leaders.
“The others all depend on the older brother,” Putin said, referring to the United States.
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