Putin likes to arrive late to meetings with world leaders as a power move, making them wait for hours to show "he's in charge." Interestingly, Biden insisted on arriving later than Putin when they met

zoe @infosec.pub · 9 months ago

Putin likes to arrive late to meetings with world leaders as a power move, making them wait for hours to show "he's in charge." Interestingly, Biden insisted on arriving later than Putin when they met

Spzi · 9 months ago

I didn’t find an English version with that quote:

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/putin-merkel-hund-absicht-heusgen-100.html

“Als die Kanzlerin Anfang 2006 ihren Antrittsbesuch machte, hatte ich meinen russischen Kollegen angerufen und ihm gesagt: Putin hat ja einen Hund. Die Kanzlerin weiß das, und sie wäre sehr dankbar, wenn bei ihrem Antrittsbesuch dieser Hund nicht da wäre. Sie ist gebissen worden, und deswegen möchte sie keine Hunde dabei haben”.

"When the Chancellor made her inaugural visit at the beginning of 2006, I called my Russian colleague and told him: Putin has a dog. The Chancellor knows this and she would be very grateful if this dog wasn’t there on her inaugural visit. She was bitten “and that’s why she doesn’t want to have dogs with her.”

Note this was many years earlier, not the event from OP.