Greetings from the Geneva lakefront, where Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov just arrived for dinner with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in this nondescript, apparently residential building called the Splendid Rivage. 
(A group of friends who just emerged from an extended brunch confirmed that this is in fact a residential building.)
On the eve-of-talks mood with @SangerNYT: Russia says US lacks understanding of what Moscow really wants, while US doubts whether Russia is “serious”: nytimes.com/2022/01/09/wor…
Meanwhile: left out of most of this week’s talks, Ukraine is quietly pursuing its own negotiations with the Kremlin, @AndrewKramerNYT reports from Kyiv nytimes.com/2022/01/09/wor…
This weekend, the Times Moscow bureau has been reporting from four different countries on two continents; from Moscow, @VALERIEin140 on the Kazakh leader’s embrace of Russia nytimes.com/2022/01/08/wor… and from Bishkek, @INechepurenko on the Kazakh elite nytimes.com/2022/01/07/wor…
Emerging from two-hour dinner with Sherman, Ryabkov strikes a positive note: talks weren’t “easy, but in principle, businesslike. I don’t think we will be wasting time tomorrow.”
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