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Another Nation
doing Dodgy deals with Evil Putin



[Russian President Vladimir Putin
has arrived in the Vietnamese
capital Hanoi on the second stop
of an East Asian tour.
The trip, which comes on the heels
of his lavish visit to North Korea,
is being interpreted as a demonstration
of the diplomatic support Russia still
enjoys in this region.

The United States has criticised the
visit for giving a platform for
President Putin to promote his
war of aggression in Ukraine.

Vietnam still values
the historic ties it has with Russia even
as it works to improve its relationship
with Europe and the US.

Looming over a small park in Ba Dinh,
Hanoi’s political quarter,
a five-meter high statue of
Lenin depicts the Russian revolutionary
in heroic pose.
On his birthday every year a delegation
of senior Vietnamese officials solemnly
lay flowers and bow their heads before
the statue, a gift from Russia when
it was still the Soviet Union.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44z3k997do