Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden have something in common: both are celebrating a milestone birthday this year. Putin celebrated his 70th birthday on October 7, Biden will turn 80 on November 20. But no one waits in vain for greeting cards, neither in the Kremlin nor in the White House.
“No, if I’m not mistaken, there are no such plans,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday when questioned by journalists. You’re not going to send a greeting card to America. Not even Biden congratulated the Russian president on his 70th birthday over a month ago.
After Putin’s birthday, the Kremlin reported on its website that twelve heads of state congratulated the Russian president. In addition to several heads of state from former Soviet republics, these included North Korean Kim Jong Un, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On his 60th birthday, Putin received further congratulations. Among others, the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the then incumbent Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych called him.
Relations between Moscow and Washington have deteriorated dramatically since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, as have relations with other Western states.
Source: Krone
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