WATCH: Presidents Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin's handshake kicks off Geneva summit

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Following an introduction by their host, Swiss President Guy Parmelin, Joe Biden extended his arm for his first handshake with Vladimir Putin since taking office.

The setting - a sumptuous villa overlooking Lake Geneva - may be picturesque, but a gruelling diplomatic face-off that could last up to five hours awaits, with no food breaks planned.The choice of Geneva, following long US-Russian negotiations, recalls the Cold War summit between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Swiss city in 1985.

In contrast with 1985, tensions are less about strategic nuclear weapons and competing ideologies than what the Biden administration sees as an increasingly hostile, rule-breaking regime. Biden, ending an intensive first foreign trip as president, arrived in Geneva after summits with Nato and the European Union in Brussels, and a G7 summit in Britain.In an interview with NBC, Putin scoffed at US accusations of dirty tricks abroad and authoritarian crackdowns at home.

Yuri Ushakov, Putin's foreign affairs adviser, told journalists in Moscow that the US-Russian relationship was"at an impasse".Biden's team likewise expects no"big set of deliverables", the senior Biden official said. Biden, who had previously characterised Putin as a"killer", upgraded the Russian leader to a"tough" and"worthy adversary".Russia was one of the top topics at the Nato summit in Brussels, where the defence alliance warned that Russian military build-ups on the edge of eastern Europe"increasingly threaten the security of the Euro-Atlantic area and contribute to instability along Nato borders and beyond".

According to Russian and US officials, one possible baby step might be a quick reinstatement of the two countries' ambassadors, who returned home this year in response to tensions.

 

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Very interesting that these men shake hands..no social distance..no masks..no sanitizers..but the whole population must fall for that scam. Mxm its just business.

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