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Ping-pong diplomacy?

Thursday, December 12, 2019
Ping-pong diplomacy?

Ping-pong diplomacy? Evoking the icebreaking China-US table tennis matches in Beijing in 1971, Gazprom Media’s TNT TV started airing yesterday, the Russian language version of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s ‘Servant of the People’ comedy series. Kremlinologists speculate Monday’s Putin-Zelenskiy meeting in Paris gave Gazprom the green light to air the series. Protectively, the state-owned media company cautioned its 35 million weekly viewers: “The show is the utopia that has nothing to do with Zelenskiy’s Ukraine.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin “does not have time” to watch TV.

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