BRISBANE, Australia – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin skipped the final working session of the G20 leaders’ summit Sunday and hightailed it to the airport to return to Moscow hours before any of his colleagues left town.
What the Russian strongman left in his wake was a conference ostensibly about the noble goal of creating $2 trillion in new global economic activity that was still abuzz over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s brief, but brusque, war of words with Putin about the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Asked at a news conference Sunday about the fracas and how it …read more
Source: canada.com
