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There is one key thing about Russia that I never did like. The moment you start causing opposition they always mention "Nuclear" its like they cannot argue or debate nothing without going extreme from the start.
International Level: New Activist / Political Participation: 23 2.3%
Yes, the level of activity in some of these remote areas are as higher, sometimes even higher, than during the height of the Cold War. The worst part about that is it just takes one miscalculation to end up in a real shooting war between nuclear armed powers.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down for an official bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday, rather than an informal pull-aside meeting.
The meeting, announced by both the White House and the Kremlin on Tuesday, will be the first official bilateral meeting between a US and Russian president in nearly two years and comes amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.
It will cap months of debate within Trump's administration about the first session with Putin, whom the US government has accused of greenlighting attempts to influence the US election last year to favor Trump.
The meeting was announced last week but a format had not yet been set. Ref. CNN.
In more than two-hour meeting, President Trump pushed Putin on Russian efforts to interfere in 2016 election. President Trump repeatedly pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, U.S. And Russian officials said Friday. Putin has denied allegations of hacking. The two leaders tentatively agreed not to meddle in each other's elections in the future. Ref. USAToday.
A diplomatic dust-up immediately broke out after a two-hour meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in which they discussed interference in US elections and an agreement on curbing violence in Syria.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Trump accepted Putin's assurances there was no Russian involvement in the 2016 American election. A senior Trump administration official immediately denied that Trump accepted Putin's claim of non-interference.
The dispute only underscores the challenges that remain in the fraught relationship between the United States and Russia, whose 2016 election meddling has hung over the Trump White House for months as multiple investigations proceed in Washington.
"They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject," US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an off-camera briefing after the meeting. "The President pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past."
Lavrov, speaking on camera in a separate briefing, said that Trump was OK with Putin's version of events.
Tillerson, who sat in on the discussion between the two leaders, said Trump and Putin did agree to a ceasefire in southwest Syria. The ceasefire was a "Defined agreement" and could be a precursor to further cooperation in Syria.
"This is our first indication of the US and Russia being able to work together in Syria," Tillerson said. Ref. CNN.