Thread by @m_suchkov

In a few days left before #HelsinkiSummit b/n #Putin @realDonaldTrump I'l be using this THREAD to share my own & my @AlMonitor colleagues' works and reports on what the two presidents may and may not achieve on #Syria, #Russia/#US-related developemnts b/n #Israel and #Iran, etc.

1. In our latest @AlMonitor #Russia-Mideast @lavmir brings an interesting story of recent talks b/n @netanyahu - #Putin in #Moscow
almon.co/32xg

There're types of reads that good you regret it wasnt you who authored them. To me this exclusive take for @AlMonitor by #Russia's leading foreign policy analyst Fyodor Lukyanov on a possible #Syria deal b/n #Putin & #Trump is in this category al-monitor.com/pulse/original…

"The talk over if #Moscow can guarantee #Iran departure frm #Syria misses a puzzle piece:What IR offering #Russia,knowing that adversaries courting #Putin?Velayati visit showed IR studied all approaches,chose its own 2-fold reasoning w #Kremlin," my latest almon.co/32y5

Details on #HelsinkiSummit:
-@niinisto,his wife @JenniHaukio host @realDonaldTrump & @FLOTUS for breakfast;
-#Putin& #Trump meet face-to-face around noon (1pm #Moscow time) for 3 hours in Gothic Hall (L) of Presidential Palace,then proceed to Hall of Mirrors(R) for working lunch

#Lavrov on what could be seem as an "ideal outcome" of #HelsinkiSummit .n #Putin & #Trump: "If all communication channels on key most complicated issues b.n the two countries are unfrozen and if after the summit #Russia and #US start interacting w/ one another in a normal way"

#Kremlin spox Peskov on #HelsinkiSummit: "A joint communique is not a mandatory attribute of such meetings." So, It appears #US party nixed the 2-page draft of final communique #Russia handed them a couple of days ago.