This archive report was first published on 6 December 2019.
On December 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to visit Washington, marking his first official visit to the US capital in over three years.
The visit comes after a highly publicized meeting between Lavrov and then-US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in May 2017, which was followed by allegations that Trump divulged classified intelligence.
Photographs from the meeting showed Lavrov, Trump, and then-Russian envoy to Washington Sergei Kislyak sharing a laugh, sparking controversy at the time.
Trump was later cleared of suspicions of collusion with Russia in a long-running probe, which concluded that Moscow attempted to influence the 2016 US election in Trump's favor.
