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The big news from yesterday was the long-awaited summit in Geneva between President Biden

and Vladimir Putin.

After their meeting, Putin called the summit constructive and Biden called it positive,

with the two leaders giving back-to-back but separate news conferences afterwards.

Putin went first, and in his conference, he continued to dispute Russia's role in cyber

attacks and human rights abuses, including against Alexei Navalny.

In Biden's conference, he said he raised the issue of Alexei Navalny as well as two

wrongly imprisoned Americans in Russia, and suggested that there will be consequences

in the international community if Navalny were to die in prison.

Biden, however, declined to lay out specifics when it came to penalties for Russia engaging

in another cyber attack on infrastructure, but he said that he pointed out that the US

has significant cyber capability, and that they will respond if Russia violates basic norms.

There was, however, one key point of contention between the two news conferences, with Putin

attempting to deflect from Russia's human rights abuses by comparing them to the charges

that were made against 400 insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on January 6.

Putin specifically cited Ashley Babet, claiming that she was shot on the spot by police even

though she was not a threat.

I mean, if he's upset about Ashley Babet, can you imagine what he has to say about Ahmed

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