Putin's global pivot from west to east
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As Vladimir Putin visits Vietnam following on from his trip to North Korea, France 24's Andrew Hilliar takes a look at how the Russian leader, now a pariah in the west, has looked eastward as he attempts to build an alternative to the western-dominated global political order.