Summits between US Moscow leaders

US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in the Slovak capital Bratislava today. These are details of previous such meetings:

November 1943 - US President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meet in Tehran as leaders of the Big Three powers fighting Germany. Subsequent meetings were at Yalta and Potsdam.

September 1959 - Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev meet at Camp David, Maryland, launching modern summitry. They agree that superpower disputes should be settled by negotiation.

June 1961 - John Kennedy meets Mr Khrushchev in neutral Vienna. Angry exchanges reflect Cold War tensions. Berlin Wall goes up that August, Cuban missile crisis follows in October 1962.

May 1972 - Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev launch detente during the first US presidential visit to Soviet Union. Sign Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT-1), the first pact limiting US and Soviet nuclear arsenals.

June 1979 - Jimmy Carter meets Mr Brezhnev in Vienna to sign SALT-2.

November 1985 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Geneva and agree to speed talks on nuclear and space weapons.

October 1986 - Mr Gorbachev and Mr Reagan hold hastily arranged summit in Iceland to consider scrapping and reducing missiles. Mr Gorbachev fails to achieve limits on US "Star Wars" programme.

December 1987 - Mr Reagan and Mr Gorbachev sign treaty in Washington on intermediate-range nuclear forces.

December 1989 - George Bush and Mr Gorbachev hold shipboard talks at Malta, dubbed the "Seasick Summit".

September 1990 - Mr Bush meets Mr Gorbachev at hasty Helsinki meeting to show superpower unity in face of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

July 1991 - Mr Bush and Mr Gorbachev sign the START-1 treaty in Moscow, cutting long-range nuclear weapons.

February 1992 - Following Soviet collapse in December 1991, Bush meets Russian President Boris Yeltsin informally at Camp David.

June 1992 - Mr Bush and Mr Yeltsin, in Washington, agree to slash strategic weapons arsenals by about two-thirds by 2003.

April 1993 - Bill Clinton and Mr Yeltsin meet in Vancouver. Mr Yeltsin speaks of "psychological understanding" with Mr Clinton.

October 1995 - After a good-humoured "Bill and Boris Show" near New York with bear hugs and backslapping laughter, Mr Clinton and Mr Yeltsin agree to cooperate in policing a Bosnian peace accord.

August-September 1998 - Mr Clinton and Mr Yeltsin meet in Moscow. The ailing Mr Yeltsin moves slowly, has trouble remembering protocol.

June 2001 - Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush meet for their first summit in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.

November 2001 - At his Texas ranch, Mr Bush differs with Mr Putin over US missile defence ambitions and cuts in nuclear warheads.

May 2002 - Mr Putin and Mr Bush publicly differ in Moscow. Putin denies Russia could be helping Iran develop nuclear weapons.

November 2002 - In talks near St Petersburg, Mr Putin accepts Nato's second eastward expansion poses no threat to Moscow and tells Mr Bush he must follow UN rules in Iraq.