THE NATIONAL INTEREST (USA):
Does the Blinken-Lavrov Meeting Signal A Thaw In
U.S.-Russia Relations?
Malevanyy Tikhon
Moscow, 2021
NEW WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
Overlap - the amount by which two things or activities cover the same area
«…Washington followed suit…» (idiom) - to do the same thing
A board willingness - the strong quality of being happy to do something if
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Counterpart - a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a
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POLITICAL NEWS OF THE WEEK
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russia’s
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Reykjavik on
Wednesday.
The talks, which mark the highest-level public meeting
between U.S. and Russian o cials since President Biden
took o ce in January, were held on the heels of earlier
reports that the Biden administration will waive U.S.
sanctions on the company overseeing construction of the
Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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The Biden administration has likewise pursued a
measured response to the recent Colonial Pipeline hack,
noting that it came from a criminal group within Russia
but stopping short of calling it a Kremlin-sponsored
cyberattack.
Photo by the Press Service of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
«INHERENT CONFLICT»
With the two sides expressing a broad willingness to
cooperate, despite deep-seated policy di erences, the
Blinken-Lavrov meeting could set the tone for a possible
summit between President Joe Biden and President Putin
later this summer. Biden, who proposed the summit to Putin
in a phone call last month, hopes to establish a clear line of
communication with his Russian counterpart.
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If it does, the meeting between Blinken may prove to be an
important step on the road to a less fraught relationship
between Moscow and Washington, a step that Biden clearly
wants to take, not least because he remembers the perils of
the Cold War and because he sees Beijing as America's chief
adversary. It would be a fundamental mistake for Moscow not
to take his professions of interest in improved ties seriously.
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