U.S., Russia butt heads over Kosovo area
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The United States and Russia are butting heads over the breakaway region of Kosovo, which is awaiting a final U.N. recommendation on whether it will become an independent nation or remain part of Serbia.
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Russia opposes a NATO-backed proposal to  set Serbia's province of Kosovo on the road to independence but  may accept a trade-off on its future in return for other  concessions, diplomats and analysts believe.
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Russia said on Friday international recognition of Kosovo would influence its policy towards the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but it did not say if it would recognize them.
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday  struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a  European arms pact, snagged over Moscow&#39;s refusal to close  bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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Russia suggested Friday that Kosovo's expected Western-backed declaration of independence from Serbia will affect its policy on two separatist regions in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. But it stopped short of saying it would recognize the breakaway provinces.
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Russia seeks UN talks as declaration of independence by Kosovo widens rifts
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a European arms pact, snagged over Moscow's refusal to close bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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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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Russia will accept a partition of  Serbia&#39;s Kosovo province if that is what both Belgrade and  Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanian majority agree to, Russian Foreign  Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
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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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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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The United States and its major-power  partners want a decision on the final status of Serbia's United  Nations-administered Kosovo province this year and see no need  for delay, a U.S. envoy said on Monday.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Russia and the United States on  Tuesday clashed over efforts to win influence in Ukraine and  other former Soviet republics, with Moscow warning the West  against interference and Washington rejecting the charge.
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The United States and European nations hope to circulate a U.N. Security Council resolution on Wednesday that seeks a four-month delay on a independence plan for Kosovo in an effort to get Russia's approval.
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Kosovo appealed to the United  States on Monday to set a date for the province&#39;s independence  from Serbia, saying Russia had blocked its path through the  United Nations.
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Kosovo is poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday amid growing excitement inside the province's ethnic Albanians but anxiety from Serbia and Russia.
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The United States threatened on  Friday to move forward on Kosovo, which is clamoring for  independence from Serbia, whether Russia agreed or not to the  latest U.N. Security Council draft resolution.