EU drops dinner with Putin to show 'not business as usual'


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  • Thursday, 16 Jan 2014

President Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting in Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow January 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mikhail Metzel/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has cancelled a traditional dinner with President Vladimir Putin at an EU-Russia summit in Brussels later this month to show there is no "business as usual" after a tug-of-war with Moscow over Ukraine.

Putin will visit Brussels on January 28 for his twice-yearly summit with the EU's top officials, despite relations being under strain. The summit is usually over two days but will be over in one this time, without the dinner on the night before.

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