# American lawyer helped establish back channel between Biden White House and Putin

https://mins.news/en/item/114483

- Meduza, 2026-10-25 04:42 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/25/an-american-lawyer-helped-open-a-backchannel-between-biden-s-white-house-and-putin-a-financial-times-report-details-the-exchanges-a-later-unofficial-peace-bid-and-how-it-fell-apart

> A Financial Times report details how American lawyer Richard Conn used Russian and U.S. intermediaries to deliver a conciliatory Biden administration message to Vladimir Putin in 2022 and receive a reply to later peace proposals. By early 2023, official negotiators Yuri Ushakov and Eric Green had effectively ended the channel.

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