Russia's Putin to meet US security adviser John Bolton next week: RIA News
Fox News neocon and soon-to-be Trump national security adviser John Bolton. (Image via Wikimedia Commons. )

The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin plans to meet U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton when he visits Moscow on Oct. 22-23, the RIA news agency reported.


Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying: “We are preparing a meeting with president Putin and we expect that the meeting will take place.”

Bolton is also expected to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

Reporting by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg