In a new op-ed for the Washington Post, Silverado's Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch and the Kennan Center's Matthew Rojansky lay out three principles to guide President Biden's upcoming meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin: Be focused, be measured, and be clear about the consequences of inaction.

Putin has never been easily maneuvered. But the surest way for Biden to repeat his predecessors’ mistakes would be openly challenging Russia’s president with unfocused, unachievable demands. If Biden instead prioritizes a direct demand that Putin put an end to ransomware attacks from within Russia, backed by the threat of sanctions or other measures, he’ll go a long way toward addressing an immediate threat and demonstrating to Putin that he doesn’t intend for U.S.-Russia relations to remain business as usual.

Read their full op-ed here.