A telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump and a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in no way helped the international rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This opinion was expressed in an exclusive blog for the "Observer" by journalist and politician Andrei Piontkovsky.
"Everything went wrong for Putin again. I mean his recent meeting with Angela Merkel and a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, "wrote Piontkovsky.
He noted that "Putin and all Russian propaganda have been trying to meet with Trump for half a year".
"But, in the end, everything they begged in the result of a telephone conversation, which was officially held on the initiative of Putin, is a meeting in the fields of G-20. Well, we remember what fields G-20. The last meeting between Putin and Obama at such a summit was somewhere in the corridor near the toilet, "recalled the journalist.
He noted that "an obvious attempt to impose a picture of a new division of the world and the new Yalta by the two great leaders again fails".
Regarding the meeting with Merkel, Piontkovsky stressed that "I have not seen such an acute and confrontational press conference for a long time, where they simply contradicted each other on all issues".
"Merkel rather thoroughly walked on issues of Russian domestic policy, including drawing attention of Putin to the persecution of gays in Chechnya. It is clear that Merkel made this trip purely for her internal political pre-election reasons, so that she could answer the possible question of the opposition, saying that you are not trying to establish relations with Russia?
Now she can answer "yes, I went, I tried to establish relations with Vladimir. But he still remains in a different reality, "Piontkovsky believes..
He is convinced that following these talks, Putin failed to achieve any "shifts in inflation of his international rating".
As reported by the "Observer", earlier the Russian journalist and TV host Yevgeny Kiselyov explained what Merkel and Putin actually talked about.
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