- Title: Merkel and Putin: over decade of meetings and handshakes
- Date: 19th August 2021
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FILE - JANUARY 11, 2020) (RUSSIAN POOL) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL SHAKING HANDS WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN IN KREMLIN MEDIA PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - DECEMBER 9, 2019) (RUSSIAN POOL) VARIOUS OF MEETING BETWEEN GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, AND FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON OSAKA, JAPAN (FILE - JUNE 29, 2019) (RUSSIAN POOL) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND GERMANY CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL APPROACHING EACH OTHER, GREETING, SHAKING HANDS PUTIN AND MERKEL TALKING, LOOKING AT THEIR WATCHES, WALKING TO TAKE SEATS PUTIN AND MERKEL TAKING SEATS BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (FILE - DECEMBER 1, 2018) (RUSSIAN POOL) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN GREETING GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, DELEGATIONS TAKING SEATS AT TABLE FOR BREAKFAST TABLEWARE PUTIN AND MERKEL SPEAKING AT BREAKFAST SOCHI, RUSSIA (FILE - MAY 18, 2018) (RUSSIAN POOL) GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL ASCENDING STAIRS AND GREETING RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, WHO HANDS HER A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS MERKEL AND PUTIN CHATTING WITH RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER DMITRY MEDVEDEV MERKEL AND PUTIN WALKING THROUGH MANSION ENTREE MERKEL AND PUTIN ENTERING ROOM
- Embargoed: 2nd September 2021 16:01
- Keywords: Angela Merkel Vladinir Putin compilation file file footage
- Location: MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA/ BERLIN, BONN AND HANOVER, GERMANY/ BUENOS-AIRES, ARGENTINA/ DEAUVILLE, FRANCE/ OSAKA, JAPAN
- City: MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA/ BERLIN, BONN AND HANOVER, GERMANY/ BUENOS-AIRES, ARGENTINA/ DEAUVILLE, FRANCE/ OSAKA, JAPAN
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001EQY4R47
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY, PART ORIGINALLY SHOT IN 4:3
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in Moscow on Friday (August 20).
The meeting may become the last one for Merkel in her current role.
Both leaders have met dozens of times as they stayed in power for years.
The archive footage looks back on changes in communication style between them: from their meeting in September of 2005, even before Merkel become Chancellor, through summits and conferences, to the last meeting on the eve of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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