Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories HAMBURG, Germany - President Donald Trump finally sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday, and though the square knot-shaped logos decorating this German port city say this is the G-20, the U.S.-Russian summit on the sidelines is the meeting that has the world holding its breath. Syria, Ukraine and the war on terror will no doubt come out when the two presidents hold their first face-to-face encounter, a 35-minute chat set for Friday afternoon against the backdrop of antiglobalist protests. But those issues are the undercard to the very dynamics of the meeting between a U.S. president facing an investigation that his campaign colluded with Russia and the Kremlin leader accused of overseeing a hacking and disinformation effort on Trump’s behalf. Trump on Thursday once again brushed off the notion that Russia meddled on his behalf in the 2016 election, which would seem to play into one of the Kremlin’s main objectives. Any signal from Trump that Moscow and Washington can put aside past differences and forge a new relationship is a victory for Putin. In two tweets Friday Trump said he was looking forward to the meeting, saying ‘‘I will represent our country well and fight for its interests!’’ The Kremlin has also said that Putin will be looking for Trump to promise that the United States will hand back two compounds that the previ... Link to the full article to read more