Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Egypt this week, and like any good guest he didn’t come empty-handed. After arriving in Cairo airport on Monday, the Russian leader cracked open a metallic case to produce an AK-47 assault rifle, which he presented to Egypt’s beaming President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
On Twitter, observers were quick to comment on the exchange between the Putin and el-Sisi:
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As relations between the U.S. and Egypt have cooled in recent months, Cairo has turn towards Moscow, and Putin and el-Sisi are reportedly on good terms.
Putin is in the Egyptian capital on a two-day jaunt before he attends the contentious peace talks set for Wednesday in Ukraine, a country with arguably enough Russian weapons in it already.
