Anchorage, Alaska —

Alaska is unlikely to have been on many peoples’ bingo cards as the venue for a key summit between the leaders of the United States and Russia.

Yet America’s biggest, remotest state is where Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are now set to meet for one of the most potentially consequential encounters of their presidencies.

That’s certainly the view from Moscow, where pro-Kremlin propagandists are already flushed with anticipation at the benefits this much-anticipated face-to-face meeting will deliver.

Or, more specifically, will deliver for Putin.

Firstly, the fact a summit with the US president is being held at all is a massive win for the Kremlin.

“No one is talking about Russia’s international isolation anymore, or about our strategic defeat,”

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