The last stop on Putin's tour was Istanbul, where Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan staged ceremony marking the completion of the construction of TurkStream gas pipeline across the length of Black Sea. ..…

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, notwithstanding his anti-Russian rhetoric, is creating a system quite similar to Putin’s system. The anti-Russian stance is much less pronounced in, say, Orban’s Hungary or Erdogan’s Turkey, to say nothing  about the western right-wingers. ..…