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June 12, 2021 - Relations with the United States are at "the lowest point in recent years", but Russia can work with Joe Biden. Word of Vladimir Putin, who in an interview with NBC a few days before the first summit with Biden scheduled in Geneva next Wednesday spoke of the American president and his predecessor, Donald Trump, considered by the Russian leader as an "extraordinary" person and " Talented".



It is confirmation that relations between the US and Russia are at such a critical point that only a face-to-face summit can give hope for some timid step forward. Relations are at their lowest and the summit should allow Biden and Putin to address the many differences, but no one is under any illusions. The final joint press conference is not even planned at the moment.       



The points of contrast are not few: the hacker attacks carried out, according to the US, by Russian pirates against American companies, the electoral interference of Moscow, Ukraine, Belarus, the fate of the dissident, Aleksey Navalny, the negotiations on Iran, nuclear stability, more generally the different view on human rights. Issues on which the White House, it has repeated in the last few hours, would like "a more stable, more predictable relationship".   



Putin - who granted an interview to NBC, the first to an American broadcaster since 2018 - does not give up but hopes that Biden is less impulsive than his predecessor: "Trump is an extraordinary individual, a man of talent" , "a colorful individual, who you may or may not like, but he did not come from the establishment, he had never been a part of high-level politics before."



The current White House tenant is "radically different", a career politician, and Putin hopes he doesn't make "impulse-inspired" decisions. But Biden does not trust Putin, he considers him "a man without a soul", even "a killer". Putin smiled contemptuously when the reporter asked him if he is a killer and added that they are words "an expression of American culture".



"During my tenure, I have grown accustomed to attacks from all kinds of angles and from all kinds of areas, with all kinds of pretexts and reasons; attacks of different caliber and ferocity and none of that surprises me. I think - he but stressed - that they are words of American culture where this is considered normal. By the way, not here. Here it is not considered normal. " And therefore that too will inevitably be another heavy cause of friction.