This is very important because previously, at least under [former US President Joe] Biden, the State Department sent directives around the world prohibiting participation in the St. Petersburg forum, Russian presidential adviser said

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov previously reported that the US is officially represented at the SPIEF for the first time in the last eight to nine years

The political situation is such that a relations reset is difficult, Mikhail Shvydkoy stressed

This determined the choice of the main theme of SPIEF-2026, Russian presidential adviser and Executive Secretary of the SPIEF organizing committee said

This is very important because previously, at least under [former US President Joe] Biden, the State Department sent directives around the world prohibiting participation in the…