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America's relationship with Russia is on a downward slide. President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to retarget Russian missiles at some of America's European allies is just the latest flash point...
...biggest obstacle comes from Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin told reporters this week that Russia might again target countries in Europe that accept such a system. "If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists, will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response," Putin said in comments released Monday by the Kremlin. "What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe...
...Prague today, Bush said, "I look forward to having conversations with President Putin, not only at the G8, but in the United States when he comes over. And my message will be, Vladimir - I call him Vladimir - that you shouldn't fear a missile defense system." Bush followed up on the offer to collaborate with Russia on missile defense that his Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made recently in Moscow. Bush said he'd tell Putin, "Please send your generals over to see how such a system would work. Send your scientists. Let us have the ability to discuss this...
...investigate the crime - an offer met with skepticism in Britain, given that Litvinenko, on his deathbed, blamed the Kremlin itself for his fate. His accusation has fed fears that Russia increasingly operates by its own rules. That's a view promulgated by billionaire Boris Berezovsky, an opponent of President Vladimir Putin. Some Russians believe in another conspiracy: that Berezovsky, who has claimed asylum in Britain since 2000, engineered Litvinenko's murder to embarrass Putin. Berezovsky strongly rejects these claims and has donated $1 million to a foundation set up by Litvinenko's widow to seek justice for her husband...
WHEN POISONED ex--KGB spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, inset above, lay dying in a London hospital last year, he famously pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian President "barbaric and ruthless." Now British prosecutors have challenged Russia by requesting the extradition of ex--KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi in the murder--a request Russia promptly refused. Lugovoi, who denies any guilt, met with Litvinenko at a London hotel the day his tea was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium...