U.S. President Barack Obama will skip the APEC summit in Vladivostok in September, Vedomosti reported Friday, as Obama's spokesman insisted that there...

... an APEC summit and Putin's not attending a G8 meeting. State Duma deputies cautioned against misinterpreting U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to skip the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which some saw as a response to President Vladimir...

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev insisted that the “reset” was still on during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a weekend G8 summit at Camp David. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev insisted that the “reset”...

Forty-eight hours into his third term, President Vladimir Putin has backed out of a high-profile meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama and other G8 leaders in a snub that raises questions about whether he is re-establishing the chilly relationship with the...

... Dvorkovich told a news conference. Two days after he was sworn in for his third term in the Kremlin, Putin told U.S. President Barack Obama in a phone conversation that he would have to skip the summit because he would be busy finalizing Cabinet appointments....

If Putin was seen as getting too close to Obama at Camp David, it would have been a blow to his tough-guy image as someone who stands up to the United States. At a time... ... with Obama — whose administration, in Putin's own words, serves as the opposition's main sponsor. When U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated President Vladimir Putin by telephone on the May 9 Victory Day holiday — an appropriate gesture...

... policy around the world, but it served as a message to the United States ahead of Putin's expected meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, who hosts a Group of Eight summit later this month. In a warning that encompassed both Russia and Syria, where Moscow and...

... in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, with U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who was there to transmit President Barack Obama's renewed determination to strengthen cooperation with Russia. Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as...

... inauguration and during a busy domestic political season. The news comes days after Putin unexpectedly told U.S. President Barack Obama in a telephone conversation he would not attend the G8 summit to be held at Camp David just before the NATO conference....

... interests. It misled Russia's international partners and created unrealistic expectations in foreign capitals. U.S. President Barack Obama cultivated ties with Medvedev as a partner in the "reset" and Russia's presumed future leader — only to...

... leaders. But in reality, the G8 members split into two opposing camps over how to solve the economic crisis. U.S. President Barack Obama and a host of European leaders contended that increased investment in the economy is necessary to expand production and...

... Security Council as well as by Western nations. Moscow opposes any new sanctions on Iran, and Lavrov suggested that U.S. President Barack Obama should veto additional punitive economic measures approved by the U.S. Senate on Monday if they reach his desk for signature...

... delegation will also visit sites for the A-135 missile defense system that protects the Russian capital. In March, U.S. President Barack Obama was caught in a hot microphone gaffe telling Medvedev he could negotiate concessions on the missile system after the U.S...

... Russian-American Foundation in New York under the auspices of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission forged by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. "We wanted to celebrate the risks all firefighters take. There are shared bonds between firefighters...

... welcomed the ratification in 2011 of the New START agreement between Moscow and Washington, a positive outcome of U.S. President Barack Obama's policy toward Russia of reducing strategic nuclear weapons, and we hope that there will be no backtracking on this treaty...

... election season will also have a strong impact on global economics. In the United States, the contest between incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney has now started in earnest. The core battles are likely to be jobs and the economy...

... because NATO officials have made it clear that members’ parliaments would never agree. Vershbow pointed out that U.S President Barack Obama promised Senate leaders that his administration will accept no limitations on the shield’s capabilities. He reiterated NATO’s...

... official will replace him in his post." As part of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission formed by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in the summer of 2009, FEMA and the Emergency Situations Ministry have recently collaborated on a number...