Biden and Putin will hold a bilateral summit in Geneva, the Kremlin and White House both confirmed, on Tuesday. The city hosts many international organizations and often offers a third-party platform for various meetings. “In accordance with the agreement reached (with Washington), the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, …
Read More »Biden’s ‘killer’ comments won’t scupper summit with Putin, Kremlin insists, as US & Russia reportedly close to agreeing on talks
That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who told reporters on Wednesday that Moscow did not want the incident to overshadow efforts to repair ties. Biden caused consternation among Russian politicians and commentators in March when he was asked whether he believed Putin to be a “killer” in an interview …
Read More »Biden wore a mask during VIRTUAL climate summit to ‘send a message’ to the world, White House says
A viral photograph – a screenshot taken from a Ruptly feed – appeared to show Biden was the only world leader in the meeting on Thursday wearing a mask. Psaki defended the move in her Monday press briefing, offering an odd explanation. Asked by a reporter why Biden was “the …
Read More »Putin should refuse Biden’s offer of a summit: Americans will bring only political theatrics & threats, nothing will be achieved
Pan-European cooperation balancing power and values The Cold War divided Europe with a bipolar international distribution of power and an ideological rivalry between capitalism and communism. Following years of dangerous confrontation, a format for pan-European cooperation was pursued to find common ground in the rivalry between both power and regime …
Read More »Putin & Biden summit will delight media, but it won’t change anything… relations between Russia & US are being slowly dismantled
Russian-American relations have gone through some interesting curves on the road recently, leaving many commentators at a loss. Stern warnings, a military showdown, reported plans to deploy the US Navy to the Black Sea (subsequently apparently cancelled), President Joe Biden calling his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and proposing a face-to-face …
Read More »Biden invites Putin to crunch summit amid deteriorating ties between Russia & US, as American warships chart course for Black Sea
In a statement published on Tuesday, American officials confirmed that the two leaders had spoken about “a number of regional and global issues.” As part of the talks, Biden was said to have “voiced concerns over the sudden Russia military build-up” on the Crimean Peninsula and along the border with Ukraine, calling upon Moscow “to …
Read More »European drugs regulator calls emergency vaccine summit after EU states press pause on AstraZeneca jab rollout
The regulator said Monday it was reviewing data on reports of blood-clotting incidents potentially related to the AstraZeneca jab. Authorities have reported one death each in Denmark and Austria related to blood-clotting in people who had received injections from one batch of a million AstraZeneca doses distributed across 17 European …
Read More »Police disrupt Moscow summit of banned pro-Western group linked to ex-oligarch, making around 200 arrests
Several dozen officers reportedly entered the convention hall of the Izmailovo Hotel in eastern Moscow shortly after the event started, interrupting the opening speech by the former mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman. Footage from the scene showed one of the officers announcing that the meeting was illegal due to being …
Read More »AstraZeneca warns of new shortfall in deliveries to EU as five nations seek summit on ‘unfair’ vaccine distribution
The already lagging behind vaccine deliveries are expected to be delayed further, the company admitted Saturday. The pharmaceutical giant blamed the disruption on production issues as well as on export restrictions. “Unfortunately, export restrictions will reduce deliveries in the first quarter, and are likely to affect deliveries in the second …
Read More »The EU convened an extraordinary summit in Belarus
On the background of mass protests in Belarus, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki took the initiative to hold an emergency EU summit. According to him, the situation after the presidential election can not leave indifferent neighbours of Belarus, who are her “responsibility”. “Morawiecki in a letter to the head …
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