The coming meeting on June 16 between President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin, is a moment of critical importance which will determine the trajectory of relations between the two countries, writes Shannon Ebrahim.
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Danil Bochkov is an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council. He gained his master of economics at MGIMO-University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and a bachelor s degree in foreign regional studies at the Institute of Business Studies (IBS-Moscow). He also has a master s degree in world economy from the University of international Business and Economics (UIBE, Beijing)
The US would not be capable to divide Moscow and Beijing, since they understand opposing US pressure together is their naturally overlapping interest, which makes their ties steadfast and untouched by any global political turbulence.
While the meeting between American secretary of state and his Russian counterpart was less acrimonious than the US-China Alaska summit, cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is both consistent and strategic. Western antagonism will only strengthen this.
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(CNN) Russia is becoming a major provider of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America, a move that could have long-standing consequences in shaping the post-pandemic world and further dent US prestige in the region.
While Moscow faces protests at home and condemnation over human rights issues from the US, France, UK, Canada and other Western countries, those issues have had little resonance in Latin America, where the recent publication of a positive peer-reviewed assessment of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine in The Lancet, Britain s leading medical journal, was widely celebrated.
Eduardo Valdes, a former diplomat and member of government coalition Frente de Todos, who now serves as chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Argentina s Chamber of Deputies, says there s a clear line between vaccine negotiations and external factors.