Russia escapes Trump prices, while the envoy pushes agreements with Washington: NPR

Moscow – While global governments and markets are revealed new steep prices imposed by the Trump administration, a great economy was lacking in particular on the white house – namely Russia.

It is already the target of massive Western sanctions in the financial, energy and defense sectors. Oligarchs and hundreds of senior officials with Kremlin links were also slapped with sanctions. Russia prices would therefore have passed the country’s economic challenges to the next level.

But that didn’t happen.

A visit by a senior Kremlin envoy to the White House this week could provide clues.

Enter Kirill Dmitriev, a former investment banker Goldman Sachs, educated by Stanford, and CEO of the Sovereign Heritage Fund of Russia, who is still officially under the American sanctions imposed by the Biden administration.

Dmitriev should meet his White House counterpart, Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, this week. The two had engaged in negotiations This finally led to the release of Russia of American school teacher Marc Fogel last February, in a decision widely interpreted as a gesture of the Kremlin to improve relations with the new Trump administration.

Dmitriev arrived in Washington on Wednesday while “sent for international economic cooperation” by Russian president Vladimir Putin, a role that Dmitriev was appointed in the midst of American American negotiations last month in Saudi Arabia.

And this is how Russia prices could arise in the near future: because after weeks of American-Russian negotiations, did not produce progress on the White House proposals for a cease-fire, Trump showed signs of increasing frustration with Moscow.

In a recent interview, Trump said he was “very angry” against Russian President Vladimir Putin. He threatened massive rates and secondary sanctions against Russian oil exports if no peace agreement on Ukraine was coming.

In response, the Kremlin sought to reduce tensions.

This week, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reassured the media that Putin “remains open” to diplomatic regulations in Ukraine and stressed that Moscow was determined to “work with the American side, first of all, on the construction of our relations”.

It is the work that Dmitriev seems to have been loaded.

And the former banker did not come empty -handed to Washington. In recent weeks, he has suggested that the United States and Russia could work together and prosper joint ventures in mineral extraction, the development of the Arctic and the exploration of Mars, among other ideas.

In addition, Russia’s first international business forum has announced that the annual event of this summer would highlight the opportunities for American commercial investment.

Even if the American-Russian negotiations on Ukraine have tripped, Dmitriev was a tireless cheer For post-sanction and a future without a price between Moscow and Washington.

Whatever your policy – the dialogue between the United States and Russia is important, “wrote Dmitriev on X before He arrived in the United States “it’s about building a safer and more prosperous world for everyone.”