The main task of the online meeting between Putin and Biden was named

Political scientist Lozansky: one should not count on breakthroughs at the Putin-Biden summit and Joe Biden will conduct a reconciliation of the results reached at the June meeting in Geneva. Such a task facing the two leaders at the planned summit was named by the President of the American University in Moscow Eduard Lozansky in an interview with Lenta.ru.

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According to him, all the positive information about the talks on strategic stability, nuclear and cybersecurity, as well as the climate that followed the meeting of the presidents in Switzerland, mainly came from Moscow. “The White House administration was in no hurry to advertise the positive, and this is due to the hawkish sentiments in Congress, where any hint of improving relations with Russia is viewed as a betrayal of US interests,” Lozansky said.

Moreover, according to the political scientist , there is often unanimity between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, even if the reason for them is far-fetched or has nothing to do with Moscow. The ongoing investigation of ties between Moscow and former US President Donald Trump also adds fuel to the fire. “In view of the above, unfortunately, one should not count on any breakthroughs to improve relations between Russia and the United States,” he said.

Earlier, a Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that online negotiations between the Russian US presidents could be held before the end of the year. The spokesman for the Russian president also listed possible topics for negotiations: Putin and Biden will discuss Ukraine and NATO.

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