Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterparts were a regular event during his tenure.
But as stress increased after illegal anecdote of tension between Moscow and West Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula Allegations of medaling in 2014 and with the 2016 US elections, they continued to decrease, and their tone appeared less favorable.
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Putin and Joe Biden
Putin and Joe Biden In June 2021, he met the Presidency- only once in Geneva.
Russia was collecting troops on the border with Ukraine, where the large swaths of the land in the east were occupied by the long-assembled forces; Washington repeatedly accused Russia of cyber attack. The Kremlin was intensifying his domestic cracks over disagreement, putting the opposition leader Alexi Navalni in jail months ago and strictly suppressing the strict protests to demand his release.
Putin and Biden spoke for three hours, but the meeting did not get any success. Two exchanged the feelings of mutual respect, but strongly restored their different views on all of the above.
He again spoke again through a videocracy in December 2021 as tension on Ukraine increased. If Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden threatened sanctions, and Putin guaranteed that Kiev would not join NATO- some Washington and his colleagues said that there was a nonstarter.
Another phone call between the two came in February 2022, which is less than two weeks than a full -scale invasion. High-level contacts then stopped the cold, with no public disclosure between Putin and Biden since the attack.
Putin and Donald Trump
Putin met six times during the first term of American and on the occasion of G20 and APEC celebrations -but -but -but -but Most famous in Helsinki In July 2018. This is the place where Trump stood next to Putin and appeared to accept his insistence that Moscow did not interfere in the 2016 US presidential election and openly questioned the firm’s discovery by his intelligence agencies.
His comment was a clear depiction of Trump’s desire to increase the decades of the US foreign policy and western colleagues were raised in the service of his political concerns.
Trump said, “I have great faith in my intelligence, but I will tell you that President Putin was very strong and powerful in his refusal today.” “He said that this is not Russia. I would say: I do not see any reason why it will happen.”
Putin and Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama met Putin nine times, and there were 12 more meetings with Dmitry Medvedev, who served as President in 2008–12. Putin became the Prime Minister in a move that allowed him to reset the Russian presidential boundary and run again in 2012.
Obama visited Russia twice – once in 2009 to meet Medvedev and again for the G20 summit 2013. Medvedev and Putin also traveled to America
Under Medvedev, Moscow and Washington talked about “reset” the Russia-US relations and worked on arms control treaties. US State Secretary Hillary Clinton presented a large “reset” button to External Affairs Minister Sergei Lavarov at a meeting in 2009. One problem: a problem: instead of “reset” in Russian, he used another word which means “overload”.
After Putin returned to the post of 2012, tension between the two countries increased. Kremlin accused the West of interfering with Russian domestic matters, stating that it affects anti -government protests that shaken Moscow as if Putin had demanded a reunion. Officials condemned internationally and international condemnation on civil society.
Russia canceled his visit to Moscow in 2013 after Russia gave shelter to former National Security Agency contractor and whistlebloor to Edward Snowden.
In 2014, Kremlin illegally canceled Crimea and thrown his weight behind a separatist extremism in eastern Ukraine. The US and its colleagues responded with crippled sanctions. Relations reached the lowest point since the Cold War.
Bashar Assad’s 2015 military intervention in Syria to carry forward more complex relations. Putin and Obama last met on the occasion of a G20 summit in China in September 2016, and held conversations on Ukraine and Syria.
Putin and George W Bush
Putin and George W. Bush met 28 times during Bush’s two term. He hosted each other for interactions and informal meetings in Russia and the US, regularly met international peaks and forums, and claimed to improve the relationship between Ontime rivals.
After the first meeting with Putin in 2001, Bush said that he “saw the man in the eye” and “found him very straightforward and reliable, getting” the feeling of his soul “.
In 2002, he signed a strategic aggressive cuts treaty -a nuclear weapon treaty that significantly reduced the strategic nuclear warheads of the two countries.
Putin was the first world leader to call Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attack, offering his condolences and support, and welcomed American military deployment on the territory of Moscow’s Central Asian colleagues for action in Afghanistan.
He called Bush “a decent person and a good friend”, adding good relations with him helped find a way out of the “most intense and conflict situations”.
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Associated press writer Yurus Karmanu contributed.
Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press