MOSCOW: Russia’s pro-Kremlin media reacted triumphantly on Saturday to the first handshake and lengthy talks between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the G20 meeting in Hamburg.
The popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda headlined its front page Putin and Trump found a way to peace in Syria and Ukraine and devoted two pages to an analysis of the leaders’ public handshake.
“Look at Putin’s thumb. He is controlling the situation, setting its tone,” the paper wrote, calling this “the handshake that the whole world was really waiting for.”
Russian state television channel Rossiya 24 also hailed what it called “a …read more
Source: theSun
