And Mr Putin's assertion in Istanbul that Turkey and Russia "share the same goals in Syria" but "differ on how to get there" is being touted by Turkey as an encouraging sign that the Russians are slowly coming around.Turkey's secular opposition CHP party disagrees.
Tourists are rarely approached by beggars, though there are touts and con artists at work around hotels and tickets centers.
There are touts, sure, and various pitfalls in certain types of bars and clubs, ahem, but scamming tourists in the street isn't high on the typical Tokyoites list of things to do.
I wasn't at Davos, but in all of the accounts and subsequent verbal reports to me by participants, the IMF's false narrative was touted there.
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, claims he's acting to save the reef, yet there he was touting coal's importance "for many, many decades to come".
As it is, the only Briton to be found guilty of a war crime in Iraq has been corporal Donald Payne, convicted of inhumane treatment of detainees in Basra - while the man who sent him there is preposterously touted as a future president of the European Union.
There are certainly those out there that are touting it as a weight loss miracle, but for me it has been more about gaining control of my mental health.
But now there's an alternative strategy being touted by a body called the Emergency Asteroid Defence Project (EADP).
The list of prospective candidates did not impress the long-suffering supporter, so he decided to put his name forward: "At the time I wrote the application there were a lot of individuals being touted for the job and, even with no experience of football management, I reckoned I would be every bit as good as Owen Coyle, Gerard Houllier, Noel King, etc".
There's probably somewhere in Europe being touted as the new Palma but we didn't have the time to research the latest hot weekend breaks.
