Analysis: Russian presence at G-20 meeting reveals a fragmented global community
But the walkout also showed that Russia still has friends at the G-20
Though Russia was removed from the Group of Eight after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, that grouping of wealthy countries was always an informal club, based more around a loosely shared view of the world rather than any firm criteria for entry. In many ways, Russia’s expulsioneconomies and the European Union. There is no requirement to be a democracy or to respect human rights — members China and Saudi Arabia would probably meet neither criteria if so.
. Saudi Arabia hosted the next G-20 meeting in 2020, though it was done virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.Putin was a key attendee of the 2015 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, in large part because of Moscow’s potential role in the Syrian war going on next door. The Financial Timeswith the Russian president “was one of the hottest tickets in town” and that Putin had “moved from a scolded diplomatic outcast to a self-styled problem-solver the west cannot ignore.
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