According to reports from AFP and others on the 28th (local time), President Vladimir Putin held summit talks in St. He then presented them with gold rings. The words ‘Russia’ and ‘Happy New Year 2023’ were engraved on it on the ring. The last, the ninth ring, was kept by President Putin himself.
The CIS is a pro-Russian cooperative body made up of 15 countries that formed the former Soviet Union, excluding Ukraine and the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). AFP reported that of the leaders who received the gift, only Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was seen wearing the ring.
Russian political expert Ekaterina Shulman pointed out that President Putin was distributing the ring deliberately and with awareness of ‘Lord of the Rings’, and noted that the ring appeared to symbolize the President’s ‘vain dream’ Putin.
A novel by JRR Tolkien In order to rule the world, Sauron, the absolute evil in the world, gives the human kings nine rings containing his greed and enslaves them.
Ukraine also joined the criticism. Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksi Goncharenko said, “Putin seems to have decided to postpone The Lord of the Rings instead of being Hitler in the 21st century.”
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