Putin’s Long Table at Kremlin Dwarfed by Massive Table in Turkmenistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with fellow heads of state on Wednesday at a large desk in Turkmenistan that dwarfed a comically lengthy desk on the Kremlin that beforehand captured international consideration.  

Assembly with the leaders of Turkmenistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, Putin sat removed from different leaders at a large rectangular desk as they mentioned cooperation within the Caspian Sea area, the Kremlin mentioned. 

In line with the Turkmenistan authorities, the sixth Caspian Summit was held on the “luxurious Arkadag Lodge.”

However earlier than the assembly came about in what Turkmenistan’s international affairs ministry known as the “Giant Convention Corridor,” there was a extra intimate assembly on the resort’s “Small Convention Corridor.”

It did not take lengthy for images of the big rectangular desk to make the rounds on social media.

Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s inner affairs minister, tweeted a photograph of the desk beneath a considerably smaller desk utilized by heads of state at this week’s G7 summit in Germany.

—Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 29, 2022

Numerous journalists additionally tweeted their ideas and made jokes concerning the desk.

—max seddon (@maxseddon) June 30, 2022

—Alina Selyukh (@alinaselyukh) June 30, 2022

This is not the primary time Putin has sat at above-average-sized tables for conferences, however the one in Turkmenistan definitely dwarfs the others. 

He beforehand met with French President Emmanuel Macron in February at a 13-foot-long desk in Moscow, and the Kremlin broke out the identical desk for a gathering with United Nations Secretary-Common António Guterres a couple of months later. 

Russian state media even broadcast Putin assembly with different world leaders at a “lengthy however spherical” desk in Could — a step away from the lengthy one. 

The New York Instances beforehand reported that Putin could also be obsessed over his well being and security — particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic.