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Russia renews Kurdish bonds

Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2013

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

25th February, 2013

An unusual visitor arrived in Moscow last Tuesday – President of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq Massoud Barzani. The Kurds played it up as Barzani’s “first official visit” to Russia. Moscow called it a “working visit” but nonetheless embellished the official trappings – President Vladimir Putin received him at the Kremlin on Wednesday.

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