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Captain America Renamed

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev might be praising the "reset" in U.S.-Russian ties, but some in Russia aren't convinced.

Russia is one of only three countries in the world where Captain America will not get top billing in the latest Hollywood superhero adventure.

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios gave distributors around the world the option of shortening the title of "Captain America: The First Avenger" to simply "The First Avenger," out of concern about anti-American sentiment.

Russia, Ukraine and South Korea took them up on the offer.

"Captain America" opens in two weeks.

(MT, AP)

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