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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima.
Year of Friendship. Now it's our turn again
Children, children...
The Year of Dutch-Russian Friendship, which marks 400 years of good relations, is coming to an end amid a diplomatic lowpoint as the crisis between Moscow and The Hague rumbles on.
After the detention by the Russian navy of the Dutch-flagged Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, and the arrest of the deputy head of the Russian Embassy in The Hague on charges of child abuse on October 5, comes a new twist, as the second most senior figure in the Dutch Embassy in Moscow was beaten in his home on October 15 by two men victim who left a homophobic slogan daubed on his wall.
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