WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. and Russian presidents meet, the rest of the world stops to watch.
For decades, summits between leaders of the world powers have been heavily anticipated affairs in which every word, handshake and facial expression is scrutinized. President Donald Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday will be no different.
Some encounters have yielded diplomatic breakthroughs, even during the worst of Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Others ended in unseemly displays of diplomatic discord.
A look at some of the U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Soviet summits of the …read more
Source: TPM
