Qaddafi rocks TV and BBQ in tent at the Kremlin

Libya’s Moammar El-Qaddafi has arrived in Moscow, pitching his tent in a garden on the Kremlin grounds: Located a few meters from the building where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has his office, the military-style tent was decorated with North African fabrics and a metal barbecue grill has been set up in front, a Reuters reporter ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Libya's Moammar El-Qaddafi has arrived in Moscow, pitching his tent in a garden on the Kremlin grounds:

Libya’s Moammar El-Qaddafi has arrived in Moscow, pitching his tent in a garden on the Kremlin grounds:

Located a few meters from the building where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has his office, the military-style tent was decorated with North African fabrics and a metal barbecue grill has been set up in front, a Reuters reporter said.

A large, flat-screen television was switched on inside the tent.

The weekend wasn’t all just TV and burgers, though; Qaddafi apparently signed a nuclear cooperation deal with Russia during his visit.

Photo: DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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