(C) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [1]:

Putin's White Table in Macron Talks Sparks Endless Memes

Date: 2022-02-09 00:00:00 [2]

As talks over the Ukraine crisis drag on, internet users can’t get over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visually striking setting for his meeting in the Kremlin with French President Emmanuel Macron: an ornate, larger-than-life white table.

A number of issues were on the 20-foot table during the two leaders’ five-hour meeting. Chiefly, in an attempt to defuse fears that Moscow could invade Ukraine, Macron aimed to “freeze the game” by offering Putin “concrete security guarantees.”

But nothing caught on among online observers quite like the table, which raised questions once more about Putin’s extreme Covid-19 social-distancing precautions.

Here’s a look at some of our favorite oversized table memes from across the Russian internet:

One Twitter user edited the table to illustrate how vast it really felt.
[END]

[2] Url: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/09/putins-white-table-in-macron-talks-sparks-endless-memes-a76300
[1] Copyright (c)2021 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
RFE/RL welcomes the re-use, republication, and redistribution of text-based content published on its digital platforms.
We also welcome the re-posting of RFE/RL text content to websites, mailing lists, newsgroups, and databases on a regular basis.
This article has not be altered.

RFERL via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/rferl/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.