Germany's Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's 'power games', contrasting US presidents in her memoirs
Merkel served alongside four US presidents, four French presidents and five British prime ministers. But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn the most scrutiny since she left office in late 2021.
Putin's power games
Merkel recalls being kept waiting by Putin at the Group of Eight summit she hosted in 2007 — «if there's one thing I can't stand, it's unpunctuality». And she recounts a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi that year in which Putin's labrador appeared during a photo opportunity, although Putin knew she was afraid of dogs.
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Putin appeared to enjoy the situation, she writes, and she didn't bring it up — keeping as she often did to the motto «never explain, never complain».
The previous year, she recounts Putin pointing to wooden houses in Siberia and telling her poor people lived there who «could be easily seduced», and that similar groups had been encouraged by money from the U.S. government to take part in Ukraine's «Orange Revolution» of 2004 against attempted election fraud. Putin, she says, added: «I will never allow something like that in Russia.»
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