Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois in the United States Senate since 1996. He has served as Senate Democratic whip and as the leading Democratic voice on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chaired. Before his Senate career he served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Witkoff brings Oslo proposals to Putin in St. Petersburg; Russia signals readiness for new trilateral talks in mid-November
US special envoy Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Oslo on October 20, then traveled to St. Petersburg for a roughly three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 21. After the talks, Witkoff said Moscow was prepared to resume trilateral US-Russia-Ukraine negotiations in the second ten days of November. The St. Petersburg meeting opened with the announced release of American Stephen Hubbard, held in Russia for over four years.