Valdimir Putin to meet Barack Obama on Monday

Obama and Putin will hold a bilateral meeting on Monday afternoon during the three-day session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The spokesman continued: “Putin also said that he understands how popular Elton John is, so if their schedules permit, he will be willing to meet him in the future and discuss any issues that he is concerned about”.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is also due to meet with Zarif on Saturday in New York as is Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday.

The Obama administration is ready to open a dialogue with Iran about the situation in Syria, the top US negotiator for the Iranian nuclear deal said on Friday. He said Thursday that the United States has spent $244 million in equipment and training for Ukraine, but that he and Poltorak said they did not discuss lethal aid during their meeting.

The only thing left for Putin after this meeting, the Ukrainian commentator says, is to decide whether he will show a carrot or a stick to the world.

In recent weeks Russian Federation, in particular, has built up its military presence in the country.

John had just returned from a trip lobbying for LGBT rights in Ukraine, where he said he wanted to meet Putin to talk about his “isolating and prejudiced” and “ridiculous” attitude towards gay people, according to The Guardian.

A meeting between the Russian president and U.S. President Barack Obama will be the final one.

Rachel Maddow explains that, insane as it may seem, Russian Federation is bulldozing and incinerating large quantities of imported food in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Western countries for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian strategic analyst Igor Sutyagin said 28 planes have been deployed as part of an air regiment in Latakia, including a battalion of motorized infantry and military engineers. As with the early days of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, USA officials say they still don’t have an explanation that satisfies them.

“President Obama will once again use this occasion to reinforce to President Putin that the importance of Russian Federation keeping the commitments that they’ve made in the context of the Minsk agreements”.