ST PETERSBURG, Russia: It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted journalists.
His retinue seemed wearily accustomed to the late-night regimen, but Putin himself – after back-to-back meetings, a speech and an on-stage interview at his annual business conference here in his home town of St Petersburg – was fresh, fulsome and feisty.
“We won in a free fight and we are going to host the World Cup,” he declared, slapping away suggestions that Russia cheated …read more
Source: theSun
