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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) addresses the State Council in the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Nicklas Backstrom has decided to sign in Russia, and he'll reunite with teammate Alex Ovechkin on Dynamo Moscow. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to the State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower house, in Moscow on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Tampa Bay Lightning's Nate Thompson, left, checks Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin, of Russia, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Monday, April 2, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
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Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers search the site where an ATR-72 turboprop plane crashed outside the Siberian city of Tyumen, Russia, on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Marat Gubaydullin)
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Washington Capitals center Marcus Johansson (90), of Sweden, celebrates his goal with teammate Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, who assisted in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Boston Bruins in Boston, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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**FILE** President Obama participates March, 26, 2012, in a bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (not seen) in Seoul. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Russian President Vladmir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
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The Republican National Committee says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev should have a D after his name.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, laughs with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their joint statement at the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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** FILE ** Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, March 26, 2012, for breathing room until after Mr. Obama's re-election campaign to negotiate on missile defense. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Demonstrators carry a poster Saturday showing a caricature of Russian Prime Minister and now President-elect Vladimir Putin during a protest in St. Petersburg against Kremlin policies and suspected vote rigging. Mr. Putin made his most lavish election promises about three weeks ahead of the March 4 election. (Associated Press)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) greets former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, in Moscow on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/AP Photo, RIA Novosti Kremlin, Ekaterina Shtukina, Presidential Press Service)
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Maria Sharapova, of Russia, laughs while being interviewed at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, poses for photos at the beginning of their bilateral meeting at United Nations headquarters on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second from right) confers Monday in Moscow with three of the rivals he defeated in the presidential election a day earlier: Mikhail Prokhorov (left), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (second from left) and Sergei Mironov. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rally March 5, 2012, at the central Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin in Moscow to celebrate Putin's victory in the presidential election. (Associated Press)
