5 Things To Watch At The Biden-Putin Summit
Posted on AllSides June 14th, 2021
From The Left
The Biden administration wants a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to show that his country is taken seriously as a world power. That is the backdrop for the first summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents, which will take place in Geneva on June 16.
"Russia is quite invested in having a very friction-filled rather than friction-free relationship with the United States," warns Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution.
U.S.-Russian relations have been in a downward spiral since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea...