Biden-Poutin summit: a purely symbolic meeting?
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US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met at a summit in Geneva on Wednesday June 16, 2021. ASSOCIATED PRESS - Alexander Zemlianichenko
By: Romain Auzouy
21 mins
This is their first face to face since the election of Joe Biden: the American president met, this Wednesday, June 16, 2021, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Poutin in neutral territory, in Geneva, Switzerland.
A summit that takes place in a context of growing tensions between the two countries.
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What do we know about what was said during this meeting?
Can this summit change relations between the United States and Russia?
Should we be worried about the resurgence of tensions between the two countries and what consequences for the world?
A Decryption with our guest
Cyrille Bret,
lecturer at Sciences Po and associate researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute.
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