Is Vladimir Putin testing Joe Biden?
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Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Monday April 5, 2021 © Alexei Druzhinin / AP / SIPA
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
32 min
Sounds of boots on the Ukrainian border, tensions in the Black Sea, a plane intercepted over the Barents Sea, diplomats asked to return home, warnings about the fate of imprisoned opponent Alexei Navalny , American sanctions, red lines not to be crossed but also the prospect of a possible summit between leaders, the American-Russian relations are tense lately.
They even bring back memories to those who are old enough to have known the Cold War, for example Joe Biden.
These tensions accompany his arrival.
Is Vladimir Putin testing Joe Biden?
This is the question of the day.
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With:
- Jean de Gliniasty,
former French Ambassador to Moscow from 2009-2013, Research Director at IRIS, specialist in Russian issues.
Author of the book "A short history of Franco-Russian relations: between geopolitics and ideology", Inventory editions (Telephone)
- Florent Parmentier
, Secretary General at the Center for Political Research of Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) and author of the book “Paths to the Rule of Law: the narrow path of countries between Europe and Russia”, published by Presses de Sciences Po. also co-founder of the geopolitical website Eurasia prospective with Cyrille Bret
- Mathieu Boulègue
, associate researcher of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House (think tank in London).
Co-author of the book “Ukraine: between rifts and recompositions”, published by L'Harmattan.
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