Russia and the United States differed in their assessments of the incident with the ships of the two countries in the Sea of Japan. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Friday, October 15, announced that the Russian anti-submarine ship “Admiral Tributs” intercepted the American destroyer USS Chafee to violate the territorial waters of Russia.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian ship warned about “the inadmissibility of such actions”, but the ship continued on its course, and then the “Admiral Tributs” took action to oust the USS Chafee from the waters of Russia. USS Chafee turned around and went the opposite course when there were less than 60 meters between the ships, the Russian Defense Ministry claims.
American side version
The United States denied the version of the Russian side, calling it “false.” V US Pacific Fleet statement his ship is said to be conducting routine operations in the international waters of the Sea of Japan and preparing for “air operations” when a Russian destroyer approached 65 yards away.
“The Fleet admitted” that Russia showed “an incident in the area”, but claims that this event was not in force at the “incident”. The very interaction of ships was called by the US Pacific Fleet “safe and professional.”
AFP notes that incidents involving the Russian Navy are rare in the Pacific, where it dominates. In June, an incident involving a British destroyer took place around the coast of annexed Russia. According to Moscow, the destroyer invaded the territorial waters of Russia.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Face to face
Joe Biden became the fifth President of the United States to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In total, the number of different summits by the leaders of the USSR and Russia and the President of the United States has exceeded a hundred, and some of them have gone down in the history of world politics. The first face-to-face meeting of Biden and Putin in Geneva in June 2021 did not become a breakthrough, but the fact that it took place is important.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
First visit to the USA
The first Soviet leader to pay an official visit to the United States was Nikita Khrushchev. In September 1959, he met with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was not possible to reach an agreement on any of the discussed problems. The return visit did not take place because of the scandal with the American U2 spy plane shot down in May 1960 near Sverdlovsk.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Agreed to the wall
Khrushchev’s negotiations with the new American President John F. Kennedy took place on June 4, 1961, at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. The main topic was the fate of Berlin and Germany as a whole. The parties fiercely defended their positions and it was not possible to agree on the key points of the task. Two months later, the Berlin Wall divided the city into eastern and western sections.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Discovering Moscow
Richard Nixon became the first US president to pay an official visit to the USSR. The negotiations held in May 1972 with the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev marked the beginning of a new stage in relations, which was called “detente”. In Moscow, the Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (SALT-1) and the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM) were signed.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
On the eve of the war in Afghanistan
The entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan in December 1979 caused a new deterioration in Soviet-American relations. Six months earlier, Brezhnev had met in Vienna with the new President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. The result of the negotiations was the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT-2), which, among other things, limits the deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
The end of the “evil empire”
Relations between Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan initially went wrong. After the first meeting in Geneva in 1985, one changed the other as a “dinosaur”, the second called a colleague a “die-hard Bolshevik”. That did not stop us from holding several meetings and signing a number of important documents in the field of disarmament. Arriving in Moscow in 1988, Reagan declared that he no longer considered the USSR an “evil empire.”
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Seasickness summit
A two-day meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and the new American leader, George W. Bush, took place in 1989 in Malta aboard the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, docked in the port of Valletta. Despite a strong storm, the summit opened a fundamentally new stage in relations between the two countries. In particular, for the first time in history, a joint press conference was held between the two leaders.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Point in the Cold War
The meeting of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin with George W. Bush in the United States in the winter of 1992 summed up the 46-year Cold War. A declaration was signed that states that Russia and the United States no longer view each other as criminals. A year later, in Moscow, politicians signed the Treaty on the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Arms (START II).
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Friend bill
Boris Yeltsin and the next President of the United States, Bill Clinton, were friendly. They met several times. In 1997 in Helsinki, during the last summit of the two leaders, Clinton persuaded Yeltsin not to hinder NATO expansion, promising to admit Russia to the G7 and to help restructure Russia’s debt in the Paris Club of creditors.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
On Russia’s accession to NATO
In 2000, Bill Clinton came to Moscow, where he met with the new President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. No important documents were signed. The main sensation was voiced by Putin many years later. In an interview with American director Oliver Stone, the Russian leader suggested that Clinton consider the option of Russia’s joining NATO, and he was not against it.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
He is the king
In November 2001, Putin became the first foreign leader to visit not only the ranch of US President George W. Bush in Texas, but also attended a closed CIA briefing for the head of the White House. At the same time, the cooling in relations between Russia and the United States began precisely under George W. Bush, who announced in 2006: “Putin is no longer a democrat. He is a tsar. We have lost him.”
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
Burger reboot
A brief period of warming in Russian-American relations fell on Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency in the Russian Federation. In September 2009, he visited the United States, visited Twitter headquarters and started his microblogging, received the latest iPhone from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and had breakfast with US President Barack Obama at a burger shop. And on April 8, 2010 in Prague, Medvedev and Obama signed the START III Treaty.
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History of the summits of the leaders of the USSR and Russia with the presidents of the United States
It blew cold
Soon after the return of Vladimir to the Kremlin, a new deterioration in Russian-American relations began: from 2012 to 2018. During the bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Helsinki in 2018, not only no agreements were signed, but not even a joint final application.
Author: Vitaly Kropman
