France’s President Macron Met with Russia’s President Putin in France

French President Emmanuel Macron met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at his summer retreat at the Bregancon fortress on the Mediterranean coast in southern France, Monday, August 19. The visit comes before world leaders gather for the G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France on Saturday. Russia was excluded from what was the G-8 in 2014 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, a move that the international community declared illegal. Macron, the G-7 host, has made fighting inequality the theme for the annual m