🔎🇷🇺 Odd, slightly protocol-breaking moment at the Orbán–Putin meeting: before the leaders entered the room, Hungary’s rabidly pro-Kremlin foreign minister Péter Szijjártó sat in the Russian delegation’s seat to chat with his friend Sergey Lavrov, then slowly walked back to his own side.

🕵️🪆Vladimir Putin has a peculiar recurring gesture former counterintelligence officers flagged: when greeting Viktor Orbán’s delegation, he shakes hands with everyone — but always gives foreign minister Péter Szijjártó a distinct pat on the arm.

He does this only to Szijjártó.