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As US President Biden prepares to meet face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva tomorrow, here's a look back at some of some historical meetings between the two countries' leaders.
From left, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin attend the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union in 1945. They were meeting to talk about a postwar plan for Europe and how it would be reorganized after the fall of Nazi Germany. Today, many historians conclude that Stalin was the "winner" at Yalta, as much of Eastern Europe would soon fall within the Soviet orbit. Churchill and Roosevelt won no meaningful concessions on Poland, which was already occupied by Soviet troops. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shares a toast with US President Richard Nixon after they signed a few agreements during a summit in Washington, DC, in 1973. The two men also held productive meetings in Moscow in 1972, signing major arms-control treaties. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
US President-elect George H.W. Bush points out sights for Gorbachev while Reagan looks on, as they overlook New York Harbor from Governors Island in 1988. Boris Yurchenko/AP
Obama and Medvedev eat cheeseburgers in Arlington, Virginia, in 2010. Earlier, they met in the White House Oval Office. Martin H. Simon/Pool/Getty Images
US President Donald Trump chats with Putin on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, in 2017. Trump said he took Putin at his word that Russia did not seek to interfere in the US presidential election in 2016, despite a finding from US intelligence agencies that it did. Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Sputnik/Getty Images
Ahead of the Biden-Putin summit, here's a look at when US presidents have met Russian leaders
US and Russian leaders have met many times over the past century — sometimes as allies and sometimes as adversaries. The affairs, however, are always highly anticipated.As US President Biden prepares to meet face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva tomorrow, here's a look back at some of some historical meetings between the two countries' leaders.
