FT: For 90 minutes, Putin lectured the Norwegian and the Finn on the past of the Slavs

Details of Putin’s conversations with the Norwegian prime minister and the Finnish president have already reached the media. It was his first telephone call from Europe in a year. For an hr and a half, Putin spoke to his interlocutors about the “historical causes of the conflict” in Ukraine, and they did not interrupt him due to the fact that they wanted to measure Putin’s intellectual state.