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...VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, on shaky U.S.-Russia relations. Putin was the first foreign leader invited by George W. Bush to his family's compound in Kennebunkport, Maine...
KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE Bush and Putin hope "lobster summit" will ease tense relations...
...powerful issue, both domestically and in terms of international relations. The successful bid has helped the nation enhance its image as a re-emerging force on the global stage, as a major player capable of carrying out high-quality, world-class events. Domestically, where political uncertainty looms as Putin approaches the end of his term in 2008 and society struggles with increasing wealth disparities, threats to civil liberties and other social problems, hosting the games is seen almost universally as a good idea, and the win has provided a quick boost to national morale. In public opinion polls, some...
Winning the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games was so important to Russia, and to Vladimir Putin personally, that the Russian president himself led the country's final, formal presentation before the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala City on July 4. Rare for him, he even made his address in English, with finishing remarks in French...
...Despite Putin's increasingly confrontational stance with other world powers on energy and defense policies, these games will likely be a far cry from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when an American-led boycott in protest of the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 resulted in a greatly diminished field of competing countries...