Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi rubbed shoulders with Russian president Vladimir Putin at a Crimean war memorial. |||
Yalta – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi rubbed shoulders with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Crimea, the most prominent Western politician to visit the Black Sea peninsula since Moscow annexed it from Ukraine last year. Western visitors have been rare since the annexation, which drove relations between Moscow and the West to their lowest point since the Cold War era and prompted the United States and the European Union to slap economic sanctions on …read more
Source: Independent Online