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...ruling mullahs. After all, three years ago the Bush Administration went to the Security Council to make a circumstantial case against Iraq's weapons program that turned out to be a prelude to Operation Iraqi Freedom. After talks on Iran in Washington last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, "It looks so d?j? vu, you know...
...pleasure in the President's glowing reception. They had spent the first three days of the trip fussing with America's more complex relationship with Russia. Before the President's arrival in Moscow to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov complained in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the President's visits to Latvia and Georgia unnecessarily interfered in Moscow's historic zone of influence. Bush didn't appear to change his script to answer the complaints. Throughout the trip, he tried to balance his enthusiasm...
...Moscow visit, both sides were working hard to show how well everyone was getting along. Rice and Lavrov held a joint press conference to put that letter writing business behind them. The two presidents embraced and smiled broadly as they greeted each other at the Russian presidential residence, then took a joy ride in Putin's Volga, a vintage 1956 Soviet automobile...
...offing. Responding to Putin's remarks, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday that Washington doesn't talk to terrorists, but would continue its discussions with dissenting Chechen officials whether Moscow liked it or not. That brought an immediate rejoinder from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called Boucher's remarks "anti-Russian...
...Ukraine nearly came to blows late last year over this strategically placed islet, which guards the only shipping lane from the landlocked Azov Sea to the Black Sea. Tensions eased last week with the ratification of an accord to share the Azov's waterways?but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the fate of Tuzla itself has yet to be decided...