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What do the US and Russian leaders want from their face-to-face summit?

Tensions are high between the US and Russia on a number of issues, from alleged Russian cyberattacks to Russia's role in Ukraine. So what can we expect from this first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Joe Biden became President? Rose Gottemoeller was the Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - NATO - from 2016 to 2019, she's a former nuclear negotiator and an expert on Russia. She is now a lecturer at Stanford University.

(Picture: Flags of Russia, Switzerland and the US in Geneva, June 2021. Credit: EPA)

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