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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets for the first time in Geneva on Wednesday with Joe Biden, the fifth US president he has known since coming to power in 1999. In all this time, Putin's relations with his predecessors have wavered.

Bill Clinton: the weight of Kosovo

Bill Clinton's contacts with Russian President

Boris Yeltsin

were warm until the Kosovo war broke out in 1998, ending the post-Cold War honeymoon.

Yeltsin's resignation on December 31, 1999, replaced by Putin, unappreciated in Washington, further complicated relations.

He is "a tough man (...), very determined, turned to action," the head of US diplomacy Madeleine Albright said of Putin.

"

We will have to monitor their actions very carefully,

" he added.

However, at the first Clinton-Putin summit in June 2000, the US president publicly praised the Russian, capable of building a "prosperous and strong Russia while protecting freedoms and the rule of law."

George W. Bush: camaraderie and mistrust

At the end of their first meeting, on June 16, 2001, George W. Bush said that he looked the Russian president in the eye.

"I was able to perceive his soul:

that of a man deeply dedicated to his country ... I consider him a remarkable leader," declared Bush.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Putin, who had launched the war in Chechnya in 1999, immediately offered President Bush his solidarity in the "war against terrorism."

However, in December 2001 the United States withdrew from the ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to create an

anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe.

In 2003, Moscow condemned the US invasion of Iraq and a year later denounced Washington's influence in the "orange revolution" in Ukraine.

Barack Obama: a "relaunch" that fails

In 2009, President Barack Obama proposed to "relaunch" relations with Russia by supporting the "restart" button.

In 2008, since the Russian Constitution prevented him from being reelected as president,

Putin served as Prime Minister

of Dmitri Medvedev, his protégé.

Before visiting Russia in July 2009, Obama declared that Putin had "one foot in the old way of doing things and the other in the new." "What interests me is dealing directly with my counterpart the president," Obama said in Moscow.

Despite initial successes, in particular the

signing in 2010 of a new nuclear disarmament treaty,

the attempt to relaunch relations failed.

In August 2013, Russia granted political asylum to American Edward Snowden, which revealed the

massive espionage of the United States in the world

.

A few days later, Obama canceled a summit with Putin, lamenting the return to "a Cold War mentality."

The 2014 Ukrainian crisis and the Russian annexation of Crimea, the US economic sanctions against Moscow and Russia's intervention in Syria since 2015, further degraded the bilateral relationship.

Donald Trump: the specter of the "Russian case"

During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he wanted to establish good relations with Russia.

But Trump's term was hampered from the start by accusations of Russian interference in the elections.

In July 2018, at a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, Trump appeared to give more credence to his Russian counterpart's denials than to the FBI's findings.

"President Putin just said it was not Russia ... And I don't see why it would be," Trump said.

Faced with criticism, even within the Republican Party, Trump replied that he had expressed himself badly.

"

I like Putin, he likes me. We get along,

" he said again in September 2020 during a speech in his campaign for re-election.

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