By John Helmer, Moscow
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For comparison with the last Putin-Biden summit meeting on June 16, 2021, here is the record of what was said and what was meant.
And for the significance of the first appearance at a summit of the presidents of the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, click.
KEY 1In the middle of the Neman River, at Tilsit, Prussia, on July 7, 1807, Napoleon met Tsar Alexander I to sign a treaty of short-lived alliance. Tilsit has been Russian since 1945. Now in Kaliningrad oblast, the city name is Sovetsk. KEY 2In Vienna, on June 4, 1961, President John Kennedy met Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, seven weeks after the defeat of the US-directed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and sixteen months before the Cuban missile crisis.
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