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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.
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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.
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KEY 1
In 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 2
In 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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