US President Donald Trump will have his first high-level meeting with a Russian representative this week, when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov comes to the White House following a scheduled meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The stakes are high: about the only thing on which Moscow and Washington agree is that relations are at their lowest point since the height of the Cold War.
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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on Dec. 30, 2016 shows a file photo taken on Dec. 28, 2016 of US President-elect Donald Trump (L) in Palm Beach, Florida and a file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2016 of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in Moscow.
