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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…

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will discuss the "huge untapped potential" for Russia-U.S. economic ties as well as the prospects for ending the war in Ukraine when they meet in Alaska on Friday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said. Ushakov told reporters that the summit would start at 1930 GMT,…

As Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to make his first visit to the United States in a decade, U.S. warplanes that have intercepted Russian aircraft as recently as two weeks ago will soon play a key role in escorting the Kremlin chief to U.S. soil. "It is an interesting irony…

The high-stakes meeting set to take place on Friday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has the potential to create a framework for ending the three-year, ongoing war in Ukraine. The question, analysts say, is at what cost to the NATO alliance and to Ukraine itself?…

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ROUNDTABLE PICTURE BECOMING CLEARER Following endless kite-flying exercises, announcements that everything is on the table (followed by announcements that actually maybe not), claims the prime minister and treasurer had to have private talks to make sure they were on the same page after the cascade of submissions, and many other…