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Berlusconi Ruffles Feathers With Latest Love Letter to Russia

Crossed wires on Ukraine at Rome, but a clear message from Brussels.

AP/Gregorio Borgia, file
Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgia Meloni attend a rally at Rome September 22, 2022. AP/Gregorio Borgia, file
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

That’s amore? The celebrated but garish business magnate and former Italian premier, Silvio Berlusconi, has embarrassed Rome again by pinning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Volodymyr Zelensky in remarks that could undercut European unity on combating Russian warmongering. 

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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