2022 Winter Olympics, Ukraine-Russia tensions, West Africa coup contagion • FRANCE 24 English

The Winter Games are now underway in Beijing – in an anti-Covid bubble, for good reason. The opening ceremony has been impressive. Due to a diplomatic boycott, only Vladimir Putin is the main VIP visitor. This comes at a time when Russia’s president is in the eye of another storm: the Ukraine conflict.

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