Russian reporters whine about ‘rough’
conditions at Trump-Putin summit — but
Moscow may be to blame
Posted By: franco, 8/16/2025 3:01:59 PM
Russian reporters are whining about having to sleep on cots and being served old tuna for breakfast while covering the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska — but their own country may actually be to blame. The Kremlin journalists griped that they’ve had to rough it on portable beds with no sheets set up at the Alaska Airlines Center sports arena in Anchorage, where they were hardly able to make phone calls. They — gasp — even had to get by without bottled water.
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Russian reporters whine about ‘rough’
conditions at Trump-Putin summit — but
Moscow may be to blame 11 replies
conditions at Trump-Putin summit — but
Moscow may be to blame 11 replies
Russian reporters are whining about having to sleep on cots and being served old tuna for breakfast while covering the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska — but their own country may actually be to blame.
The Kremlin journalists griped that they’ve had to rough it on portable beds with no sheets set up at the Alaska Airlines Center sports arena in Anchorage, where they were hardly able to make phone calls.
They — gasp — even had to get by without bottled water.
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"Feel good" story of the summit meeting. There are *no* independent reporters left in Russia, so every one of these 50 is a stooge doing Putin's bidding. They're lucky they got the "spartan" accommodations at all. Would have preferred to give them torn up tents and tell them to live off the land the way Ukrainians at the front lines must do.