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Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t have asked for a better reception. He was greeted with a red carpet, a jet flyover and a ride with President Donald Trump in the armored presidential Cadillac limousine known as “The Beast.” Putin’s beaming smile in the window of the limo as they drove…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin may already feel like a winner when he sits down Friday in Alaska with President Donald Trump. Putin, who has ruthlessly secured unprecedented power at home, has seen his army finally eke out a slight advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine after years of brutal back-and-forth…

Donald Trump has insisted he won’t let Vladimir Putin “mess around” with him at their high-stakes summit over Ukraine and is giving the talks a 75% chance of success. Amid concerns from European leaders that the Russian president will cajole Trump into imposing a settlement on Ukraine, the US president…

NewsFeed Ahead of a direct meeting with US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his counterpart’s “sincere efforts” to end the war with Ukraine. The two are set to speak face-to-face Friday in Anchorage, Alaska. Published On 14 Aug 2025 Read More

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ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump and some top aides have spent the week downplaying expectations for his Friday summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as he on Wednesday called the session a “very important meeting” that must produce “great things.” The administration’s often-shifting objectives for the meeting…

RFE/RL staff RFE/RL journalists report the news in 21 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. We provide what many… More Info Premium Content By RFE/RL staff - Aug 14, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT Trump warned Russia of “very severe consequences” if it…

Donald Trump meets Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 for their first summit of Trump’s second term. Their topic of discussion will be the war in Ukraine. The pair may decide the fate of the country which Putin began to illegally occupy in 2014 and which Russian…

What happens when a convicted felon and a man under indictment for alleged war crimes get together? What sounds like the opening line of a great joke, sadly, is probably the defining meeting of the second term of Donald Trump as US president. As with any meetings involving Trump, expectations…