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US President Joe Biden meets with Swiss Confederation President Guy Parmelin in Geneva on his European tour. Biden arrived in Switzerland on Tuesday ahead of his first summit with Vladimir Putin, as tensions between Moscow and Washington stand at their highest in years. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Moscow. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev hold talks in Moscow. This is the first meeting of the presidents since violent unrest in the ex-Soviet country in January. Over 200 people were killed and thousands injured in violence that began with anti-government protests and prompted the country to call in Russia-led troops. IMAGES
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is greeted by Russia's Vladimir Putin with a bouquet of flowers in Moscow on the anniversary of a nerve-agent attack on now-jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose life was saved by Berlin doctors. The pair are expected to discuss the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the simmering war in eastern Ukraine and the authoritarian crackdown in Russian-allied Belarus. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves Villa La Grange in Geneva after his meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden. The two leaders wrapped up their first summit after around three-and-a-half hours of meetings and are set to hold separate news conferences. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane lands in Geneva where he is meeting US President Joe Biden at a tense summit, where ghosts of the Cold War will hover over modern-day US concerns about Russian cyber attacks and what the White House sees as a dangerous authoritarian drift. IMAGES