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A pyjama party with a cosy morning coffee sounds like something you’d see in Gilmore Girls – but it was Vladimir Putin who was remembering a morning like this.

Yesterday, while speaking at the Valdai discussion club, the Russian leader spoke about a former meeting with Sir Tony Blair.

‘I know him personally, more than anything else. I was a guest and spent the night at home with him.

‘We drank coffee in pyjamas in the morning. Was the coffee good? Yes, quite,’ he smiled.

Putin is likely referring to his 2001 visit to Chequers with Blair, the traditional country retreat of British prime ministers in Buckinghamshire.

But Putin and Blair have worked together in the pas

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