Russian President Vladimir Putin understands only manifestations of power, according to the former Prime Minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown. In an interview with BBC News, the politician said that the Russian president allegedly humiliated him and forced him to sit in a low chair. The quote is given by the Daily Mail.
We are talking about a meeting of politicians during a Brown’s visit to Moscow in 2006, then he was not yet the prime minister of the country, but served as head of the treasury. According to Brown, he was deliberately put in a low chair so that he had to look at Putin from the bottom up. In addition, the Russian politician supposedly had a whole folder with a dossier to the ex-prime minister.
“He pulled out the documents and began to read all the information out loud that I was there about me, as if he wanted to prove to me that I knew me more than I myself,” the Briton said, adding that then Putin was really Putin scared him.
Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of Britain from 2007 to 2010.