View from Moscow: Syria Move Aimed at Ending International Isolation
View from Moscow: Syria Move Aimed at Ending International Isolation Print Comment Share: President Barack Obama and Russian President President Vladimir Putin greet each other during a luncheon, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. RELATED ARTICLES Official: Obama, Putin Have 'Shared Desire' to Solve Syrian Crisis Putin: Assad, Syrian Military 'Valiantly Fighting Terrorism' Danila Galperovich September 29, 2015 4:53 PM MOSCOW— Russia’s official media have been parsing Monday’s meeting between the American and Russian presidents in New York in detail, discussing everything from who initiated it (Moscow claims it was Washington, despite the fact that the White House denied this), to who clinked – or didn’t clink -glasses with whom at U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon’s reception, to whether the two leaders smiled at each other, why they “met for longer than scheduled,” and so on. The ...