Angesichts ihrer langen gemeinsamen Geschichte würde Putin Merkel kaum ans andere Ende eines absurd langen Kreml-Tisches verbannen, wo er in jüngster Zeit andere Staatsoberhäupter Platz nehmen ließ, um sein mangelndes Interesse an echten Verhandlungen kundzutun.
Given their long-shared history, Putin would be unlikely to relegate Merkel to the opposite end of that comically long Kremlin table where he has recently seated other heads of state to telegraph his lack of interest in serious negotiation.