Why not a G8?
At the table in Taormina, there’s no room for Vladimir Putin, who has decided to abandon Western standards and develop his own leadership style.
At the table in Taormina, there’s no room for Vladimir Putin, who has decided to abandon Western standards and develop his own leadership style.
Russian President Vladimir Putin looked like a schoolboy being shunned by his classmates at the G20 summit in Brisbane in November 2014. World leaders were visibly awkward while shaking his hand and talking to him; tense and restrained, Putin seemed almost like a pariah. Being photographed with the other BRICS leaders breathed some life into him, but his eyes only really radiated warmth when he was being hugged by a koala, the only creature that seemed to understand and forgive him.
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