MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Today's Putin-Trump summit in Alaska will set the tone for how Ukraine situation unfolds, Russia's battlefield wins give Putin added leverage in Ukraine talks, and Moscow is ready to revise all agreements with Damascus. These stories topped Friday's headlines across Russia.
Today's long-awaited summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska is an important signal that the two powers are ready to work together, but as for a Ukraine deal, expectations should be tempered, as a quick resolution is highly unlikely, Russian political scientists, politicians and scholars concluded at a roundtable held by the Kremlin-linked Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR).
One potential positive that could come out of the meeting is the development of a "strategic vision" for Russia-West relations, one that may serve as a framework for resolving the territorial issue and determining Ukraine’s future, believes Boris Mezhuyev, an associate professor at the Philosophy Department of Moscow State University. In his opinion, unrealistic expectations of a quick fix to the Ukraine conflict may hurt the very process of talks, particularly given the US president’s inclination toward "swift, neatly packaged solutions."
