Ex-Italian PM 'deeply disappointed' by Putin's behaviour

Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he was "deeply disappointed and saddened" by the behaviour of Russian President 

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he was deeply disappointed and saddened by the behaviour of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Qazet.az reports.

When he was in power, Berlusconi had a close friendship with Putin, and invited him on vacation to his villa in Sardinia.

"I've known him about 20 years ago and he always seemed to me to be a democrat and a man of peace," the 85-year-old billionaire said, addressing a convention of his conservative Forza Italia party in Rome.