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Now playing Next world news Vladimir Putin meets Joe Biden - what's on the agenda? The US and Russia acknowledge the relationship between the two nations is dismal ahead of the two presidents' meeting. 15/06/2021
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Now playing Next Russia Russian President Putin congratulates Joe Biden on US election win The Russian president had held off sending his congratulations, citing the "internal political confrontation" ongoing in the US. 15/12/2020
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Now playing Next Russia US Election: Analysts say 'chaos' would be the best outcome for Russia Relations between the US and Russia have steadily declined since Trump took office, and the country will not overwhelmingly express support for him as it did in 2016. 03/11/2020
Now playing Next USA US foreign policy: How will Biden or Trump deal with friends and foes? It's perhaps over Russia the two men differ most strongly. Trump has seemed reluctant to criticise President Putin at times, even when US intelligence concluded the Kremlin had interfered in the 2016 election. Whereas Biden has signalled he would take a much firmer line with Moscow 28/10/2020
