Putin Is Blasted by Litvinenko Lawyer as Tin-Pot Despot
“After years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost patience with Putin’s judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was labeled a “tin-pot despot” by a lawyer for awarding a medal of honor to one of the men accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko.
Giving Andrei Lugovoi a medal in March for services to the country was a “crass and clumsy gesture,” Ben Emmerson, a lawyer for the Litvinenko family, said on the final day of an inquiry into the former spy’s death in London.