Some had met Russian diplomats from the U.S. mission in New York.

We met Russian soldiers in the Baltic and there was plenty of vodka.

Assad is expected to met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday.

The deal was announced after Disney CEO Bob Iger met Russian President Vladimir Putin.

All three later met Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York.

Mr Trump met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office last week.

Theresa May appeared serious and unsmiling as she met Russian President Vladimir Putin for one-to-one talks in Japan.

Bush met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the games as fighting raged in Georgia.

It was there Bush met Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001 and said he had peered into his soul.

News reports then emerged showing that Sessions had himself met Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak at least twice in 2016.

Whenever I met Russian Jews abroad, I always marvelled at the strangely tenacious love for Russia which they preserve.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Russian President Vladimir Putin five times in the last 18 months, more than any other leader.

US president Donald Trump met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak in the Oval Office last Wednesday.

On Friday Mr Trump briefly met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20, a Russian official told Reuters.

Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky met Russian investigators in London today to answer questions over the killing of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.

U2 frontman Bono met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday to try to convince him to support his efforts to combat AIDS.