Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Kyrgyzstan this week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, a regional confab that also brought together Xi Jinping of China, Narendra Modi of India and Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran. The leaders convened in the capital Bishkek during a week of high geopolitical anxiety, with a fresh round of tit-for-tat strikes by Iran and the US, Russian drones and missiles pummeling Ukraine and Germany accusing Russia of being responsible for a drone attack targeting Leipzig airport last month. But Putin appeared firmly in his comfort zone. At a press conference late Tuesday, he seemed to…
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