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Pompeo to meet Putin on Russia visit: State Department
May 9, 2019

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet President Vladimir Putin next week in Russia in the highest-level formal talks between the powers in 10 months, the State Department said Friday.

The top US diplomat will meet Putin on Tuesday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi to “discuss the full range of bilateral and multilateral challenges,” the State Department said.

The United States and Russia are at loggerheads over a number of global issues including Venezuela, where Pompeo has led US calls to demand that Moscow stop backing President Nicolas Maduro, a leftist whom Washington is trying to oust.

The trip marks the most significant US interaction with Putin since July, when President Donald Trump met the Russian leader in Finland in an encounter that was widely criticized inside the United States.

Trump at a joint news conference appeared to take at face value Putin’s insistence that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election — despite findings of US intelligence as well as Putin’s open statement in Helsinki that he favored Trump over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Pompeo’s trip comes after the long-awaited release of a probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who found widespread efforts by Russia to meddle in the US election but did not find that the Trump campaign colluded — a conclusion that has brought relief to the embattled White House.

Trump again raised eyebrows a week ago when he said that Putin told him in a lengthy phone call that he was “not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela” and wanted to “see something positive happen” in the crisis-torn country.

Russia earlier announced Pompeo’s visit but it had been unclear whether he would meet Putin. He will also hold talks in Sochi with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — their second meeting in as many weeks after they met on the sidelines of an Arctic conference in Helsinki.

Pompeo will also visit Moscow, where he will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated to Soviet troops killed in World War II — an era when Moscow and Washington were allied.

https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-meet-putin-russia-visit-state-department-005219714.html

Did Clinton’s SET UP Russians at the Olympics?

Did Clinton’s SET UP Russians at the Olympics
In what may make the fake Russian collusion narrative against President Trump look like child’s play, we have a developing scandal.
First, the Russians have been accused of doping for some time. And let’s be honest; they have doped their athletes, generally with steroids.

Apparently they new drug of choice is the drug meldonium. Russians and other Eastern bloc athletes use meldonium to achieve better results. The scandal even hit tennis recently when Sharipova was temporarily banned from the sport due to her use of the product.

https://theblacksphere.net/2018/02/did-clintons-set-up-russians-at-the-olympics/

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Pompeo To Raise ‘Aggressive, Destabilizing’ Russian Actions With Putin, Lavrov

May 10, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to Russia as U.S. secretary of state next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on “aggressive and destabilizing actions” Moscow has taken around the world, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

Pompeo would reiterate U.S. concerns about Russia’s roles in Venezuela and Syria and its breach of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, as well as Russian attempts to meddle in U.S. elections, the official told reporters in previewing Pompeo’s trip to Moscow and Sochi next week.

“We have many areas of disagreement with the Russian government and the secretary will have a very candid conversation about concerns in our bilateral relationship,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

https://www.oann.com/pompeo-will-meet-with-russias-putin-lavrov-during-visit-to-russia/