Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are expected to hold a face-to-face meeting in Alaska on Friday - an opportunity Putin would be foolish not to seize with someone who is listening to the person he last spoke to. Trump is aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize, and to do that, no matter how Friday's talks turn out, he needs to be able to portray what happened there as a success.

Ukraine is once again on the edge of the carpet - and the European Union, which Trump is unable to take seriously despite the fact that he would let him handle the Ukraine issue.

What else can the two presidents discuss beyond Ukraine? Why is Russia, which is on a winning streak, willing to negotiate at all? Béla Kacskovics Mihály asked Gábor Nagy, head of the HVG Világ column, and András Németh, our newspaper's former Moscow correspondent.