When they met in Moscow in 2006, Putin gave her a large stuffed dog and remarked that it doesn’t bite. Apparently, he was alluding to the bad experience of a German politician who was attacked by a dog in the 1990s.
“I didn’t know she was afraid of dogs,” the Kremlin chief claimed on Thursday at a press conference in Astana about the 2007 meeting. “.
Putin explained that, on the contrary, he tried to create a pleasant atmosphere for their meeting. “If ever again – I realize that it is unlikely – you come, under no circumstances will I do it again,” assured the Russian president.
Putin enjoyed it
In the photos from the meeting in Sochi, the labrador Koni walks around Merkel sitting tightly on a chair. In one picture, it looks like she even put her head in her lap. Chancellor Merkel looks on with a nervous smile. Merkel wrote in her memoirs that “she could see from the expression on Putin’s face that he was enjoying the situation.”
According to AFP, Putin is known to like dogs and receives them from foreign guests on various occasions. Sergej Shoigu, who later became the Minister of Defense, gave him the female Horse.
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