Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has threatened to be a public relations disaster for hard-right gatherings like CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Previous editions featured Putin supporters \u2014 and a CPAC meeting getting underway in Budapest will feature Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb\xe1n, who remains on highly cordial terms with the Kremlin. So what playbook can participants at CPAC \u2014 which is being held for the first time in Europe \u2014 use to put a cordon sanitaire between them and Putin?\xa0 A similar conference of National Conservatives, who met in Brussels in March, offers clues.
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