A phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden is scheduled for Thursday at 23:30 Moscow time (15:30 Eastern Standard Time).
This will be their second conversation in a month. In early December, the leaders talked via video link for two hours.
The conversation will take place ahead of consultations on security guarantees in Geneva with the American delegation on January 10, and with NATO in Brussels on January 12.
Russia is counting on a dialogue on equal terms. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly listed the "red lines" that the United States and the North Atlantic alliance should not cross. And here legal guarantees are important. They are drawn up in documents that the Russian side handed over to Washington and the headquarters of the military bloc. In particular, NATO should rule out its further eastward expansion. Also, it is necessary to discuss a return to the old system of mutual deterrence. The problem arose after the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
the upcoming negotiations were commented on today by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova during a briefing.
"In the course of the negotiations, we will seek from the American side submissions of firm legal guarantees of security, namely, not the advancement of NATO to the East and not the deployment of weapons systems that threaten Russia near the borders of our country,"she said.
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