ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin were given an atypical present for his seventieth birthday on Friday: a tractor.
Because the leaders of a number of ex-Soviet international locations met on the Czarist-era Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus introduced Putin with a present certificates for the car. Tractors had been the pleasure of Belarusian business since Soviet occasions.
Lukashenko, an autocratic chief who has dominated the ex-Soviet country with an iron hand for almost 3 many years whilst cultivating a person of the folk symbol, instructed newshounds he used a fashion in his lawn very similar to the only he talented Putin.
It wasn’t transparent how the Russian chief spoke back to the present, which Lukashenko’s place of job printed.
Putin didn’t point out the present in televised remarks in the beginning of the assembly when he talked in regards to the wish to talk about tactics of settling conflicts between ex-Soviet international locations.
He additionally emphasised the wish to trade knowledge to combat terrorism, unlawful medicine and different crime.
The leaders of the Commonwealth of Impartial States, a unfastened alliance of ex-Soviet international locations, have every other amassing to wait subsequent week in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana.
