He writes that relations between former US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, could deteriorate after the 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan. Washington post.
In 2004, US intelligence gathered reports that Putin’s security chiefs encouraged him to “resolutely break with Bush,” according to the newspaper’s sources.
The Russian-American counter-terrorism alliance was broken after the tragedy when Putin decided that the American counter-terrorism campaign was “a smokescreen to cover up America’s geopolitical advance in Eurasia at the expense of Russia.”
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declaration In an interview with Die Weltwoche, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s problem is the US military bases located close to the borders of the Russian Federation.
According to the prime minister, he understands the president’s aims, but does not support his actions.
The head of the Hungarian government also noted that Russia is a “different civilization” and therefore the West does not understand it.