As everyone knows, during the pandemic, a safe distance should be maintained from others. Vladimir Putin took this very seriously when he received Emmanuel Macron in the Kremlin last Monday: A table with a length of about four meters separated the two presidents. As Reuters now reported, citing French government officials, Putin had given his guest a choice: Macron should either accept a PCR test by Russian medics – or just maintain distance. „But we could not accept that they get their hands on the president’s DNA,“ Paris said.