With few exceptions, such as the regular visits to Moscow lacking a negotiating mandate from Hungary’s former pro-Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, the last time a leading European leader saw his faces with Russian President Vladimir Putin dates back to February 2022, the immediate period before the start of the invasion of Ukraine. Rather than to approach positions with a Russia whose authorities had already decided to go to war against the…
With few exceptions, such as the regular visits to Moscow lacking a negotiating mandate from Hungary’s former pro-Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, the last time a leading European leader saw his faces with Russian President Vladimir Putin dates back to February 2022, the immediate period before the start of the invasion of Ukraine. Rather than to approach positions with a Russia whose authorities had already decided to go to war against the…