Russia and the United States will meet in Istanbul

Representatives of Russia and the United States will meet today in Istanbul.

The Russian news agency TASS, citing an unnamed source, said the two sides will face a series of “challenging issues” including visas, the number of embassies and the activities of institutions and organizations in each other’s countries. one.

Dozens of Russian and American diplomats have returned to their countries of origin in recent years as a result of the sharp reduction in staff at their embassies in the opposite country.

The highest level of face-to-face contact between the two countries after the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the meeting between the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Sergey Narishkin, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of USA, William Burns, in Ankara on November 14. (Reuters)