![Putin's Long Tables Explained: Why He Puts Some Leaders, Including Germany's Scholz, At An Extreme Distance Putin's Long Tables Explained: Why He Puts Some Leaders, Including Germany's Scholz, At An Extreme Distance](https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/620a9b5afd8687e0e1bf109c/Hungarian-Prime-Minister-Viktor-Orban-in-Moscow-------/960x0.jpg?height=438&width=711&fit=bounds)
Putin's Long Tables Explained: Why He Puts Some Leaders, Including Germany's Scholz, At An Extreme Distance
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For cameras? Vladimir Putin gets girl to make 'confusing' call to his minister | World News - Hindustan Times
![The Russian president has been pictured recently in meetings at the end of very long tables, even with his own foreign minister. The Russian president has been pictured recently in meetings at the end of very long tables, even with his own foreign minister.](https://e3.365dm.com/22/02/800x600/skynews-vladimir-putin-emmanuel-macron_5666116.jpg)
The Russian president has been pictured recently in meetings at the end of very long tables, even with his own foreign minister.
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