President Putin greets President Bashar al-Assad before national flags (Russia, 21 November 2017)
Two men in dark suits shake hands in a wood-panelled room; the man on the left, smiling, stands in front of a red, white and black flag with two green stars, and a white flag is partly visible behind the man on the right. A flower arrangement sits at the lower edge. The tell is the staged handshake between flags, which presents the Russian president as the Syrian president's recognised partner and so lends the visit the standing of the state.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- November 21, 2017
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, via Commons)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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