- "He took out some files and started reading all the information he had on me," says the former British prime minister.
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| Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. |
Former Labor leader Gordon Brown met Vladimir Putin in 2006 during a visit to Moscow. Brown has revealed that he felt threatened by the Russian leader during that trip, according to the Mirror.
To intimidate the British politician, Putin took out a series of cards and read information about him. "I met Putin for the first time in 2006 in the Kremlin and they put me in a very low seat to look at him," he told the Telegraph magazine. "He took out some cards and started reading all the information he had about me as if he wanted to show that he knew more about me than I knew about myself," he adds.
"When people say that Putin has changed and is only now threatening, I can tell you that he was threatening me even then," says the former British prime minister.
Brown points to the 150 countries that have not imposed sanctions on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
"What we have also seen is a global disunity: 82 countries refuse to support action against Russia for its violation of human freedoms and 150 countries around the world are not imposing sanctions," he said on the BBC's Sunday Morning program.