Tensions with Russia rising ahead of G-8
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for the annual G-8 gathering of the world's industrialized power next week, he may be greeted with tense smiles and strained pleasantries.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Lisbon on Thursday to meet Portuguese leaders ahead of an EU-Russia summit on Friday that is likely to be dominated by disagreements on trade and energy.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The G8 summit reached deadlock on Friday over independence for the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, with Russia rebuffing France's bid to avert Moscow's threatened veto by delaying a U.N. vote.
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As Moscow moves to assert the Kremlin s authority in response to the Beslan crisis, it is simultaneously pushing for stronger economic and political ties with the former Soviet republics.
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BERLIN, May 31 -- Russia and the United States sparred yet again Thursday, continuing a war of words that has raised tensions across the Atlantic.
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POTSDAM, Germany -- Foreign ministers from the Group of 8 countries clashed yesterday over the future of Kosovo after Russia warned that a United Nations plan to pave the way for independence from Serbia could encourage separatist movements in the Russian-backed regions of Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.
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More than 140 police were injured in violent clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors here on Saturday at a demonstration ahead of next week&#39;s G8 summit.
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Â· Bush has responsibility to world, Miliband will sayÂ· Pressure grows ahead of this week's G8 summit
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin urges international pressure on Georgia, as tensions continue to escalate.
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Russia stepped up the pressure on Royal  Dutch Shell and its Japanese partners on Tuesday over a $20  billion oil and gas development in the Far East, sparking  protests from Tokyo and Brussels.
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MOSCOW, Jun 7 (IPS) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to  reaffirm his disagreement with Washington's view of Russian  democracy, reiterate objections to the proposed U.S. missile  shield in Eastern Europe and give more meaningful explanations on  the rules of the international community at the Group of Eight  (G8) summit under way in Germany this week, analysts say.
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In advance of the G8 summit, European leaders are wary of the President's new proposal on addressing climate change
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US President George W Bush tries to soothe a missile row with Russia as a key G8 summit begins in Germany.
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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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Sanctions and pledge to press for further UN action  timed to pre-empt next week's G8 summit.
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US President George W. Bush left for Europe and the G8 summit on Monday, facing a growing rift with his Russian counterpart and searching questions over his new initiative on climate change.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Major powers at a G8 summit were deadlocked on Friday over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, with Russia resisting the terms of a French plan to delay a U.N. vote on its independence.