【題組】⑵ The leaders of Russia and Greece produced a grand pageant of solidarity, friendship andsupposed economic cooperation at Russia’s annual gathering for global businessexecutives Friday, but the embrace seemed mostly about thumbing their noses atEurope. For President Vladimir V. Putin, giving the Greek prime minister a high-profileinternational platform served to eclipse the issue of the war in eastern Ukraine, whichwas all anybody could talk about at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forumlast year. 
Alexis Tsipras, the leftist Greek prime minister, made a surprise appearance at theforum’s main event, emerging from the audience in the packed convention center todeliver a speech immediately after Mr. Putin. 
It was a chance for him to bathe in warm applause while he denounced the EuropeanUnion, to show that he had friends and to try to pressure Brussels to give a little groundin crucial debt talks next week. Yet he received no Russian money and limitedinvestment pledges.（25 分）