Biden Strikes Realistic Tone After Meeting With Putin Voice of America 17 Jun 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 GENEVA - U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have ended their summit in Geneva, with Biden describing it as "good" and "positive." But he further described the summit in a realistic tone, saying the next several months would serve as a "test" of whether relations between the two countries can improve. "I am not sitting here saying because the president and I agreed that we would do these things that all of a sudden it's going to work," Biden said during the press conference after his more than three-hour meeting with Putin. "I'm not saying that.