Far Eastern Economic Forum: perhaps the least covered international event by Western major media this week

Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Mongolia at the start of this week drew the attention of U.S. and European media. The BBC and, I assume, other broadcasters put on screen video clips of the honor guard reception for the Russian President. However, nearly all coverage was directed at one very specific aspect of the visit: that it was Vladimir Putin’s first visit to a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which had issued a year ago an international arrest warrant following the Court’s determination of his responsibility for what Ukrainian authorities called a deportation of Ukrainian children to children from their homes in occupied Ukraine to the Russian interior.