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ASSOCIATED PRESS WANTS TREATY: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is pressing for a new anti-ballistic missile treaty with the United States.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gives his annual address to both houses of parliament at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Russian scientist Sergey Zimov demonstrates the emission of methane trapped under the ice of a Siberian lake near the town of Chersky, Russia. In the last few decades, as the Earth has gradually warmed, the icy ground has begun thawing more rapidly, accelerating the release of methane - a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - at a perilous rate.
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** FILE ** Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, clinks glasses with officials during a signing of trilateral agreement before the opening of the APEC summit in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Russia, Japan and China signed an agreement to build a chemical plant in Tatarstan, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar, center, and, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina attend the International Tiger Forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at the International Tiger Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Officials from the 13 countries where tigers live in the wild have signed a declaration aimed at saving the iconic big cats from extinction. Russia is home to Siberian tigers, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hosted the "tiger summit." (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
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President of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick attends the International Tiger Forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Officials from the 13 countries where tigers live in the wild have signed a declaration aimed at saving the iconic big cats from extinction. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, photo Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left with U.S. actor Leonardo Di Caprio, right, after a concert dedicated to tiger conservation in St. Petersburg, Russia. Officials from the 13 countries where tigers live in the wild have signed a declaration aimed at saving the iconic big cats from extinction. Russia is home to Siberian tigers, and Putin hosted the "tiger summit." (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar, center, and, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina attend the International Tiger Forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Sen. John Kyl., Arizona Republican, came out against a new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, dealing a setback for its ratification by the Senate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Foreign Policy Initiative Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and founder of Russia's "Solidarity" movement, said in an address to the Foreign Policy Initiative, a Washington based think tank, this week that President Obama was making strategic concessions for tactical advances in his dealings with Russia.
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Muslims pray outside in a mosque in Grozny, Russia, as they celebrate Eid al- Adha, which Muslims in Russia call Kurban-Bairam, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, by sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows or camels. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
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An elderly Chechen man chooses a sheep for sacrifice in Grozny, Russia, during celebration of the Eid al- Adha, which Muslims in Russia call Kurban-Bairam, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, by sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows or camels. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
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Incarcerated former CIA worker Harold J. Nicholson (seen here) pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to act as an agent of Russia. His son, Nathaniel, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy charges in connection with the elder Nicholson's spy activities. (Associated Press)
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Russia's Elena Dementieva returns the ball to Italy's Francesca Schiavone during the 4th day of Qatar WTA Tennis Championship in Doha, Qatar, Friday Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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Lava flows from the Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka Peninsula eastern Russia is this image taken from TV Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. Volcanic eruptions on Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have tossed massive ash clouds into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing a town with ashes. (AP Photo/RTR, via APTN)
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Special Force officers examine the scene after a bomb blast in front of a Chechen parliament complex in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, on Tuesday. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex, and one set off a bomb at the gates. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, keeps the puck away from Ottawa Senators' Sergei Gonchar (55), also of Russia, during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Washington on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010.
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** FILE ** Anna Chapman, a Russian national who was deported from the United States this summer for alleged spying for Russia, is seen with an unidentified security man at a ceremony for a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Capitals Alexander Semin (28), of Russia, left, slides across the ice while being defended by New Jersey Devils Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (22) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Washington, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The Capitals won the home game 7-2.
