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French President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip to Moscow to attend the World Cup final, a presidential aide told AFP [19659002oratthestagewhereFranceshouldplaythewinneroftheWednesdaynightsemifinalbetweenEnglandandCroatiasaidthebadistant
The meeting will take place one day before Putin meets in Helsinki with US President Donald Trump for the first bilateral summit between the two leaders.
Macron and Putin talk to each other regularly on the phone and greet each other for summit meetings. last year, but they found little ground on issues such as the civil war and the conflict in Ukraine
British officials boycott the World Cup in Russia after blaming Moscow for the badbadination attempt of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. the streets of an English city in March
A limited number of countries, including Iceland, Poland, Sweden and Denmark, followed, but to different degrees.
Moscow did little to hide its pleasure at the actual failure of a larger diplomatic boycott of the event.
Matteo Salvini, Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, who is an open admirer of Putin, will also participate in the final on Sunday.
Macron and he recently opposed migration policy in Europe.
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