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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin — Behind the Shoji
The Russian president’s time in Pyongyang and Hanoi gave clear evidence of the turn away from the West that Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, announced at the start of the year. Russian President Vladimir Putin arriving in the North Korean capital …