LONDON - Seated on a separate chair, well in front of all other foreign guests, he cut a lonely figure among the spectators at Myanmar's recent Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyitaw, the capital.
But as the highest-ranking foreign official present, General Alexander Fomin, Russia's deputy defence minister, expected to attract international attention.
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