Moscow hockey match shows limits of Trump-Putin thaw
2 July 2026
Featured in The Financial Times
Russia and the US
Trump always approached the negotiations in a frame that said, if you can get the business right, then the politics will follow... There’s no question that the desire to return to doing business [in Russia] is there. Why it hasn’t happened so far is that you need a durable settlement on the ground in Ukraine — and that has so far proven elusive, to put it mildly.”

