Vladimir Putin Hopes Joe Biden Less Impulsive Than His Predecessor Trump

In an interview with NBC News, Vladimir Putin described Joe Biden as a "career man" who spent his life in politics after the "colorful" Donald Trump.

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced hope Friday that Joe Biden will be less impulsive than his predecessor Donald Trump ahead of his first summit with the new US leader. In an interview with NBC News, Putin described Biden as a "career man" who spent his life in politics after the "colorful" Trump. "It is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting US president," he said, according to a translation by NBC News. Biden plans to raise a range of US complaints, including over purported Russian election interference and hacking, in the summit with Putin on Wednesday in Geneva at the end of the new president's first foreign trip.