Published 08:42 IST, June 29th 2019
WATCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin brings his own mug to G20 Summit official dinner, toasts with US President Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin brought and drank from his own mug during an official dinner at the G20 summit in Osaka's Japan, prompting social media jokes and speculation that the longtime leader suffered from paranoia.
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Russian President Vlimir Putin brought and drank from his own mug during an official dinner at G20 summit in Osaka's Japan, prompting social media jokes and speculation that longtime leer suffered from paraia.
Videos showed Putin, in power for almost twenty years, drinking from a white rmos mug while or leers drank from regular wine glasses.
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"This is because he is constantly drinking tea from that rmos," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained to RIA vosti news ncy.
Russian president was seen toasting US President Donald Trump with mug.
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Trump drank a dark liquid that appeared to be cola from a wine glass.
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Putin bringing his own cup to international event prompted speculation online that 66-year-old did t trust anyone.
"If you've seen what I've seen, you'd bring your own cup too," a parody account of Russian leer, @DarthPutinKGB, wrote on Twitter.
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mug resembled one that Putin has drunk from during his annual hours-long press conferences that has a double-heed eagle, Russia's national symbol, on it.
PM Modi held a 'RIC' trilateral meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vlimir Putin on first day of G20 Summit wherein y discussed issues like terrorism and climate change.
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three countries, in a joint communique of 16th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia, India, and China, strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
In his opening remarks, Prime Minister Modi said that trilateral meeting in Osaka is a useful medium of discussion and coordination on major global issues.
After a long time, three leers met in Argentina at summit level last year.
"As world's leing ecomies, exchange of views between us, on ecomic, political and security situation of world, is important. Our trilateral meeting today is a useful medium of discussion and coordination on major global issues.
(With AP inputs)
08:28 IST, June 29th 2019