For relations between Russia and the United States, the 1990s are back. No, this doesn’t mean that the Starlite Diner — the darling of expats and locals in the earliest days — is once again serving creamy, cold milkshakes near the Mayakovskaya metro station. Today’s geopolitical performance of Back to the Future instead comes courtesy of negotiations between Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the US side, and Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russia Direct Investment Fund, on the Russian side. In the run-up to Tuesday’s Kremlin meeting — the latest effort to bring an end to Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine — Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev reportedly met in Miami Beach to discuss a staggering array of business deals.
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