U.S. tries to reassure Russia on eve of G8 summit
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - U.S. President George W. Bush criticized Russia on democracy on Tuesday but sought to calm President Vladimir Putin's anger over U.S. missile shield plans on the eve of a G8 summit in Germany.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers gather on Germany's Baltic coast on Wednesday for a G8 summit likely to be dominated by U.S.-Russia tensions and wrangling over global warming.
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday raised the possibility that the United States is trying to âisolateâ Russia from its neighbours among the former Soviet republics amid ongoing tension over elections in Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on  Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve  differences over a planned missile shield, but warned that  Moscow could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded.
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Russia warned the United States and European Union on Monday that it would take a series of unidentified measures if Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.
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Leaders from major industrial powers are in Germany for a G8 summit overshadowed by US-Russian tensions.
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MOSCOW - The US and Russian presidents, George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, will hold a summit in the Slovak capital Bratislava, on February 24, the Kremlin said on Monday.
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U.S. and Russian officials sought on Thursday to play down their differences in talks on global security but a more conciliatory tone was not expected to fix U.S.-Russian relations which are at their lowest ebb in years.
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President George Bush offered help on  Tuesday to resolve conflicts in Russia's neighborhood, hours  before he was to attend the first NATO summit on former Soviet  territory.
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Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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Russian President Vladimir  Putin sought to reassure France and Germany on Saturday they  had nothing to fear from Moscow's growing economic clout and  held out the prospect of more natural gas for Europe.
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President Vladimir Putin is expected to assert a Russian view of global security sharply at odds with that of the United States, when he speaks at a security conference.
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The U.S. knows it must avoid harsh rhetoric and ease any fears of military action in order to have any chance at getting Russia and China to agree to sanctions in the nuclear standoff
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Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced suspicion Thursday the United States might be behind efforts to isolate Russia and destabilize it.
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Emergency talks on a key arms control  pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the  United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate  East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Kosovo and other international issues by telephone Monday ahead of a summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations next week.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Washington and its allies cannot be divided on their mutual defense, amid a row over a proposed US missile defence shield in eastern Europe.