MOSCOW. Oct 17 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his views do not always align with those of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but that does not prevent them both from looking for solutions to whatever problems face them.
"My views and his [Orban's] far from always coincide. Often we find ourselves in completely different places, but that does not prevent us from talking and from searching for a solution to an issue or a problem," Putin said in an interview with the journalist Pavel Zarubin on the Rossiya-24 (VGTRK) television channel.
"[Orban] is one of the small cohort of European politicians who know how to stand up for their interests," Putin said.
"He does so persistently, consistently, [and] one might say, quite tactfully," he said.
The two met earlier on Tuesday on the sidelines of the One Belt One Road Forum in China.