Russia / World
Leaders of Asian post-Soviet countries generally agree to meet with the Russian president with pleasure. To be invited to Moscow for grand events or bilateral negotiations is considered an honor. Turkmen leaders Saparmurat Niyazov, and his successor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, were the exceptions to the rule in the early 2000s. Very seldom were they guests in Moscow, and as a rule, any top-level meetings with Russian leaders took place on the sidelines at international summits. The foreign policy of …read more
Source: Intersection