The plane of Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Tehran, where he is scheduled to have a series of meetings with the leadership of Iran and trilateral talks with the participation of Turkey. At the airport of the country, he was met by a delegation, with whom he talked without social distance.
According to the video posted RIA Novosti On July 19, the head of state exchanged several phrases with those who met. Individual security measures nevertheless remained in force: for example, the handle of the Aurus was wiped with a special napkin before the president got into the car.
Vladimir Putin is currently meeting with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi. Then he will talk with the country’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Recall that in early February, Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron had a conversation at a huge table, the size of which was about six meters. A week after that, Putin received Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin – an even longer table about eight meters long separated the head of departments from the leader of the country.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the distance during the working meeting with Shoigu and Lavrov was due to covid restrictions and precautions. Distance, he explained, was by no means does not interfere with work.