PUTIN SPEAKS WITHOUT A SCRIPT : WAR IS NEARLY WON, NATO IS A LIAR AND GERMANY HOLDS THE NORD STREAM KEY
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin sat down with the heads of the world’s leading international news agencies at the Konstantinovsky Palace on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — a wide-ranging, freewheeling session that covered Ukraine, Iran, NATO, Nord Stream and his own political future. He was unhurried, precise, and in no mood for diplomatic softening…