Biden bites back in Geneva as Putin tries to deflect from Russia’s human rights record
17 June 2021 |
1:22 pm
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible US-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva, but the issue of human rights remained a source of discrepancy. the first summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin
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