Putin meets Hungary’s PM in rare in-person talks with an EU leader

Viktor Orban met Vladimir Putin in China (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin pool photo via AP)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has held talks with Vladimir Putin in a rare in-person meeting for the Russian president with a leader of a European Union country.

The two leaders met in Beijing ahead of an international forum on one of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature policies, the Belt and Road Initiative.