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11 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage caption, UN Secretary General António Guterres (second left) and EU top diplomat Josep Borrell (first right) had a lot to discussBy Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent in MunichIt's called the Munich Rule: engage and interact; don't lecture or ignore one another.

But this year, at the 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC), two of the most talked-about people weren't even here.

That included former US President Donald Trump, whose possible return to the White House could throw a spanner in the work of the transatlantic relationship, which lies at the heart of this premier international forum.

And Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who was vehemently blamed by one world leader after another for the death of his most prominent critic Alexei Navalny, not to mention his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which continues to cast a long dark shadow across Europe and far beyond.

The staggering news of Navalny's death, which broke just hours before the conference kicked off on Friday, underlined again the perilous unpredictability of a world carved up by multiple fault lines and entrenched interests.

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