Meeting of the Presidents of Russia and the United States on Lake Geneva. What is important to know

Under what circumstances will the Russian-American summit take place

For the sake of meeting at the Geneva Villa La Grange, Russian President Vladimir Putin will interrupt the pause caused by the pandemic in foreign trips - he last visited abroad in January 2020, for events in Jerusalem. Biden will come to Switzerland also during the first foreign trip since the beginning of his presidency, which began on January 20 this year.

If you look at the chronology of recent meetings between American and Russian presidents, you can see that usually the first meeting after the inauguration of a new head of the United States took place just next spring or summer. Putin met with George W. Bush in May, with Barack Obama in April, with Donald Trump in July, and the meeting with Biden took place in June.

Biden's trajectory to the summit with Putin follows that of his predecessor Trump, who also arrived at a separate bilateral summit with Putin (held in July 2018) during a European tour after a visit to the UK. Biden began his European tour by attending the G7 summit in the United Kingdom, and will arrive in Geneva from Brussels, from the NATO summit.