The Fabled Isolation of Putin

From the Presidential website

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the United States of America Barack Obama on the American side’s initiative. January 13, 2016 22:15 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/51165

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the initiative of the Jordanian side. January 14, 2016 18:10 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/51169

So isolated that you just can’t get anything done without talking to him.