ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would strive and provide a boost to strained household with the U.S. at his coming summit with President Biden and accused Washington of making an strive to stifle Russia’s style.
“We acquire now not be pleased any disagreements with the US, now we be pleased simplest one disagreement: their desire to withhold again our style,” Mr. Putin said Friday at the St. Petersburg Worldwide Financial Dialogue board, Russia’s flagship funding match. “We should strive and search out programs to prefer Russian-U.S. household.”
The face-to-face assembly between the 2 leaders scheduled for June 16 in Geneva comes against the backdrop of rising tensions between Russia and the U.S. Since taking location of job, Mr. Biden has imposed sweeping recent sanctions against Moscow for alleged transgressions, including interference within the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a cyberattack on U.S. executive and company computer networks, and the Kremlin’s alleged strive and execute opposition leader Alexei Navalny by poisoning him final yr—accusations that Moscow rejects.
Mr. Putin said Russian-American household be pleased turn out to be hostage to U.S. home politics and U.S. sanctions against Russia “remain a mystery in many respects,” he said.
The Russian leader said he hoped that one day the affect of U.S. internal politics on bilateral household would dwell, given the 2 countries’ “vital interests within the self-discipline of no lower than security, strategic balance and the reduction of weapons awful for the total world are gathered extra most well-known.”
