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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, look at South Korean President Moon Jae-in during their meeting at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin urges North Korea talks, says sanctions not working

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

People stop to watch black smoke coming from the roof of the Consulate-General of Russia Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Fire Department says acrid, black smoke seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco was apparently from a fire burning in a fireplace. The smoke was seen billowing from the consulate building a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

US seizes control of Russian posts in San Fran, DC, NY

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

This Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo shows the Consulate-General of Russia in San Francisco. The United States is retaliating against Russia by forcing closure of its consulate in San Francisco and scaling back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York. The State Department says move is in response to the Kremlin forcing a cut in U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Russia lashes out after Trump orders diplomatic posts closed

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

President Trump has chosen leaders from Congress and industry — like former Exxon executive Rex W. Tillerson — for senior national security positions. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump retaliates by closing Russian diplomatic outposts in U.S.

By S.A. Miller and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

This Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo shows the roof of the Consulate-General of Russia in San Francisco. The United States is retaliating against Russia by forcing closure of its consulate in San Francisco and scaling back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York. The State Department says move is in response to the Kremlin forcing a cut in U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The Latest: US orders Russia to close SF consulate

Associated Press

This Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo shows the Consulate-General of Russia in San Francisco. The United States is retaliating against Russia by forcing closure of its consulate in San Francisco and scaling back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York. The State Department says move is in response to the Kremlin forcing a cut in U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Escalating tit for tat, US orders Russian consulate closed

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 a man watches Russian military jets performing in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian military says major war games, the Zapad (West) 2017 maneuvers, set for next month will not threaten anyone. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Russia hoping to boost arms sales after Syrian usage

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2016, file photo, Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Kremlin confirms Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, reached out about deal

Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks with Lithuania's Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis prior to a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

CROSSTALK: Trump, Putin, Ukraine, Reagan, Obama

By L. Todd Wood

FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 Russian soldiers compete during a team's run at the Army Scout Masters competition, part of Army Games, outside Novosibirsk, 2900 km (some 1800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. The Russian military says major war games, the Zapad (West) 2017 maneuvers, set for next month will not threaten anyone. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Russia seeks to allay Western fears about planned war games

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

This Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows Candeo Creative an advertising agency that was started as a problem solver for businesses by owner Zack Pawlosky in Oshkosh, Wis. “There’s a vision for us to be a global agency. It’s a massive vision, and it sounds, on paper, unattainable, but no one has been able to give me a real reason why we couldn’t do it,” said Pawlosky. (Joe Sienkiewicz/The Oshkosh Northwestern via AP)

Millennial-owned Oshkosh ad agency aims to blow up

By NATHAN PHELPS - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2016, file photo, Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Michael Cohen, lawyer, says Trump Tower in Russia considered during campaign

By Eric Tucker and Chad Day - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, center, attends a military parade to celebrate independence day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The Ukraine officially declared itself independent from the Soviet Union on April 24, 1991. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

James Mattis in Kiev says Moscow wants to redraw borders by force

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, Paul Heartfield, one of London's most experienced and respected portrait artists starts to record on an X-ray film during a concert at the Bone Music exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, in Moscow, Russia . The exhibition describes a unique chapter in history of Soviet culture _ bootleg music recordings made on used X-ray film . (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

AP Photos: Forbidden Soviet-era music on X-ray snapshots

By ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 14, 2013 file photo, a Russian policeman stands in front of an entrance of the U.S. Embassy in downtown Moscow, Russia. The U.S. Embassy in Russia will suspend issuing nonimmigrant visas in Moscow for eight days from Wednesday and will stop issuing visas at its consulates elsewhere in Russia in response to the Russian decision to cap embassy staff, the embassy said Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

US Embassy in Russia stops issuing tourist visas for 8 days

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this file photo taken on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, then-Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov smiles at a briefing in the Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia. Antonov, who has gained the reputation of a hawk during his earlier tenure at the Defense Ministry, was subsequently named Russian ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Putin appoints new Russian ambassador to US

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this July 21, 2017 photo, a glass of craft beer sits on the bar at the Rule Taproom pub in Moscow, Russia. Pint by frothy pint, a hoppy revolution is brewing in Russia. A new generation of craft beer brewers began sprouting in the vodka capital of the world as foreign beers got too expensive and beer-drinkers started looking for alternatives to mass-produced lagers. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pint by pint, a hoppy revolution is brewing in Russia

By RICARDO ZUNIGA - Associated Press

Donald Trump’s Russia deals encouraged under Clinton plan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times