When U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat in Moscow on Wednesday, he’d better come prepared.
Tillerson’s counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is a wily veteran of world diplomacy who has dueled — and routinely infuriated — no less than four of Tillerson’s predecessors as secretary of state.
Within weeks of taking his job in 2004, Lavrov was butting heads with George W. Bush’s secretary of state, Colin Powell, over foreign influence in Ukraine — a sore point between Washington and Moscow to this day.
Tillerson, by contrast, has less than three months of diplomatic experience under …read more
Source: European Voice
