United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face in a remote army base in the Alaskan capital of Anchorage on Friday for much-anticipated talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The choice of venue is practical. Mainland Alaska and Russia are just 90 kilometres apart, while Alaska's Little Diomede Island lies fewer than 4 kilometres from Russia's Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.