It was the diplomatic conundrum of the week: why were Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron sitting at the ends of a table so long they had to talk loudly to hear each other? Did Putin want to send a signal to his French guest? Had he made a table part of a cunning power play?
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Why Putin and Macron sat at an extremely long table
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