Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Putin held a meeting via videoconference with the participation of SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin, Foreign Minister Sergei #Lavrov, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai #Patrushev, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and several other people
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Questions of foreign policy were discussed. In particular, #Putin lamented the refusal of the #Chinese comrades to help with the circumvention of sanctions. Initially, Putin had high hopes for Chinese help and had good reason to do so
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The #Chinese leadership, even before the war, made it clear that assistance in circumventing sanctions, if any, would be fast and large-scale. But firstly, no one expected that the war would not go according to plan and #Ukraine would put up fierce and effective resistance
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Secondly, no one expected that the West would impose such harsh sanctions. During the meeting, #Putin expressed his personal dissatisfaction with #XiJinping and the entire #Chinese leadership in general in harsh and obscene terms
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Also, Foreign Minister Sergei #Lavrov received his portion of negativity from the president. #Putin laid part of the responsibility on him for the failure in negotiations with #China
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And when #Lavrov began to explain the reasons why his visit to #Serbia did not take place, #Putin broke loose and interrupted him, calling him "an asshole" and "a complete faggot". There is nothing extraordinary in what happened
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Not in public Putin allows himself to communicate in this way with some people, and #Lavrov is included in this circle.

The participants of the meeting also noted small, but promising successes in expanding the possibilities to effectively influence #European politicians
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The head of the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service), Naryshkin, described the opportunity to influence several key #European politicians with a colorful metaphor: "we hold them by the balls, very gently, but with a very cold hand".
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#Putin liked this expression very much and later he repeated it several times, quoting Naryshkin. #Patrushev ended the meeting on a positive note, promising a quick breakthrough in circumventing sanctions with the help of #India and other countries in the Asian region
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