Russia Crows Over Putin’s Meeting With Trump
Mr. Trump said that I really hope so,
By NEIL MacFARQUHARJULY 8, 2017
MOSCOW — There was a certain degree of exulting in the Russian capital on Saturday in the wake of the first meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump, with Mr. Putin himself saying
that the American president seemed satisfied with his answers on the hacking issue and that the talks had set the stage for improved relations.
Asked repeatedly about the two presidents’ conversation about accusations of Russian hacking during the 2016 American election, Mr. Putin said at a news conference in Hamburg, Germany,
that Mr. Trump had paid a lot of attention to the issue, asking multiple questions.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and no stranger to difficult summit meetings, hailed the two presidents’ meeting while noting
that Mr. Trump was "unpredictable." "That the president of the United States, for his part, spoke positively of the results of the meeting is very good," Mr. Gorbachev was quoted as saying by Interfax, an independent news agency.
Andrei said that It is important that they finally met because if you look at the history of the relations between Washington
and Moscow, these relations always depended to a large extent on the personal contact between the two leaders,
He does not want to stand at the ‘anti-Russian hysteria’ bus stop." He added: "It was important for Trump to hear Putin: After all, back in Washington, he is fed informational gruel
that is mixed up in the fake." Mr. Putin seemed to try to break the ice with Mr. Trump by referring to his travails with the news media back home.
"It has become clear that Trump recognizes Russia’s serious intentions in Syria
and wishes to join the settlement process and to be a party to the resolution of problems in Syria alongside Russia," Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the foreign affairs committee in the Duma, the lower house of Parliament, was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency Tass.