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1.23pm BST
My sympathies with whoever is running the Washington Post’s emails today, because they’ve just had to send out a corrected version which starts:
Correction: An earlier version of this newsletter had an error in the subject line. Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with President Biden, not with former president Donald Trump. The error has been corrected.
1.12pm BST
The two leaders didn’t say much in front of the press, but Putin told Biden upon first meeting him “Mr President, I’d like to thank you for your initiative to meet today,” as he knew the US president “had a long trip and lots of work.”
But the Russian president emphasized that there are “lots of questions accumulated in Russia-US relations that require discussion on the highest level.” Continue reading...