Russians and Westerners clashed in Munich
The tone was turned up a notch between Russian and Western leaders on Saturday 13th February in the security conference in Munich, about Syria, Ukraine and the migration crisis, during exchanges of hardness raises doubts opportunities success of the agreement reached Friday in the same city for a temporary truce in Syria.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has acknowledged that “the picture was even bleaker than in 2007”, the year Putin had intervened before the same conference. Just before his arrival in Munich, Medvedev had also warned the US and its Arab allies against Syria in a “global war”, in an interview with the German daily Handelsblatt, where he also described the Russian ” world’s largest nuclear power. ”
Read the article of the french Newspaper “Le Monde”
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