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Putin arrives for his inauguration ceremony in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2024.
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Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions

by David J. Kramer

The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Putin last appeared on U.S. soil for a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, in August 2025. That meeting produced no progress toward ending the war that Putin started against Ukraine. If anything, the Russian bombardment of

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