A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, Macron had gone to Moscow to meet with Putin and persuade him not to attack. At the time, everyone was struck by the white table at which the two leaders sat.
It was literally huge, with one sitting at one end and the other at the other. The table was over 20 feet long. At the time it was said by some that Putin did it to humiliate the French President and make him feel inferior.
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Others said that because Macron refused to submit to the Russian test for covid-19, they sat at the big table to keep their distance from each other to avoid getting stuck.
Others in the know said that this particular table is decorated with gold leaf, was made 25 years ago by Renato Pologna and is worth over 100.000 euros.
Table like a stadium
But it seems that Vladimir Putin has an obsession with huge tables. At the Caspian Sea summit (5 countries), the table where the leaders sat is unlike any other
The summit took place in Turkmenistan and was attended by the presidents of Turkmenistan in addition to Putin, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, of Kazakhstan, Kasim Dzhomart Tokayev, and of Iran, Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi.
And the table is beyond imagination. It's at least 20 meters long and 5 meters wide, it forms a parallelogram and each leader is... "inches"
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At the same time at the G7 summit, nine leaders were sitting almost huddled around a small round table. And of course as soon as the images of Putin sitting at the table hit the internet, social media had a party.
"Has Putin ever sat at a normal table?" one user asks, and another writes: "Five leaders are attending the Caspian Summit in Ashgabat today. Putin is one of them. I think their table is too small." And the comments continue: "Is Putin's table getting bigger every week? What's going on? What are they hiding from us."
Source: in.gr
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