It was certainly not a simple conversation between the newly elected American president, Joe Biden, and its Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. As the White House spokesperson said, Jen Psaki, the issues dealt with during the talks between the two heads of state are very divisive and on some dossiers the Democrat did not hesitate to express his opposition to how the Kremlin he is managing them. One above all, the poisoning of the Russian dissident blogger, Alexei Navalny.
On the events concerning Putin’s main opponent, who ended up in prison immediately after his return home from Germany, where he was still recovering frompoisoning last August, Biden said he was concerned.
But he didn’t just talk about the Navalny case. During the interview he also came up with the Ukrainian dossier, another sensitive point for Moscow. And he spared no criticism, recalling that Washington supports Ukraine in the face of “theRussian aggression“.
Despite the attempt to make further progress on the renewal of the New Start treaty on nuclear arsenals, as proposed by Biden himself, the American president did not shy away from addressing the issue of Russian interference in US elections, of cyberattacchi of Moscow, of the alleged ‘bounties’ for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Putin, for his part, said he was in favor of one “Normalization” of relations with Joe Biden’s United States, as communicated by the Kremlin after the phone call between the two presidents, but it is clear that, after the four years of Donald Trump, during which relations with Moscow have been anything but strained, the two presidents will have to significantly revise their agreements with the new administration.
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