What’s cooking for Biden-Putin dinner?

He's bright, he's tough, and I have found that he is, as they say, a worthy adversary

- Joe Biden on Vladimir Putin after a NATO summit

My great hope is that... there wouldn't be any impulsive moves [from Biden]

- Vladimir Putin, during an interview with NBC

US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are meeting today in Geneva in their first presidential encounter. The two leaders are holding talks amid extremely rocky relations between the two governments. Here’s a look at the summit details and what’s on the agenda THE VENUE

Villa La Grange, 18th century mansion in Parc de La Grange, across Lake Geneva

THE SCHEDULE

No one-on-one between Biden and Putin is planned. Their first meeting will include Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and US secretary of state Antony Blinken, before opening up to a larger group of US and Russian delegates

THE GENEVA FACTOR

The city is known as a Cold War crossroads. In 1955, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev met there. Then Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met there in 1985. Interestingly, both meetings led to a de-escalation of tensions