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STORY: Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Friday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as ties between the countries have been tested by the arrests of Greenpeace activists and Russia's "homosexual propaganda" law.
The King and his wife Queen Maxima shook hands and spoke briefly in front of cameras with Putin in an opulent Kremlin hall.
Russia criticized the Netherlands before talks with the Dutch king on Friday, accusing it of "inaction" in not preventing a Greenpeace protest at a Russian Arctic oil rig in which 30 people were arrested.
Hours before Putin and Willem-Alexander were due to meet in Moscow, Russia's Foreign Ministry said the Netherlands was to blame because the Greenpeace icebreaker involved was registered in Amsterdam.
The Sept. 18 protest, off the Russian Arctic coast against oil drilling there, has strained relations between Moscow and The Hague.
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