Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly told party members that he sent bottles of wine to the Russian leader after receiving vodka
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has allegedly reconnected with Vladimir Putin, exchanging “sweet” letters and gifts with the Russian president despite the European Union’s ongoing anti-Russian campaign.
“I have got back in touch a bit with Putin, quite a lot, in the sense that for my birthday he sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter,” Berlusconi is heard saying on an audiotape released by the LaPresse news agency. “I answered him with some bottles of Lambrusco [wine] and an equally sweet letter.”
Berlusconi, who celebrated his 86th birthday on September 29, reportedly made his comments to parliamentarians in his Forza Italia party on Tuesday in Rome. Forze Italia later issued a statement saying that Berlusconi and the party had been consistently “in line with the position of Europe…
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