This apparently is not the first portrait of a US leader Mr Putin has sent. In 2014, the Russia president reportedly sent to George HW Bush a portrait of the former president on his 90th birthday.

Trump isn’t the first US president to court Putin. In November 2001, then-US President George W Bush hosted the Russian ...

It was signed by the nuclear powers -- the United States, Russia and Ukraine. Twenty years later, Putin violated that pact. George W. Bush may have looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul ...

Putin seemed pleased. Bush famously said he was “able to ... into a “stable and predictable relationship” with the United States. They reasoned that, with Russia on the sidelines, they ...

Kirill Dmitriev, an economic envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin, is expected to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff, ...