“David Cameron thought that hed established some kind of a bond with Putin. Rather naively, he thought that through his personal relationship with Putin, he could get this guy to behave rather better.”
Former foreign correspondent and now Leader writer for The Times, Michael Binyon and Former ambassador to Russia, Sir Roderic Lyne, share intriguing examples of sporting diplomacy and how Putin nearly got access to British intelligence through the Olympic Games.
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