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FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2009, file photo, Melanie Oudin, of the United States, serves to Maria Sharapova, of Russia, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. (AP Photo/Paul J. Bereswill, File)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a crossbow as he sits on a rubber boat at the Olga Harbor of Kamchatka Peninsula during a scientific expedition, to study grey whales on Wednesday, Aug.25, 2010. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aims a crossbow as he is on a rubber boat at the Olga Harbor of Kamchatka Peninsula during a scientific expedition, to study grey whales on Wednesday, Aug.25, 2010. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left), envoy of the Middle East Quartet, which comprises the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Blair on Tuesday called on Israelis and Palestinians to bring serious proposals to a new round of peace talks set to start Sept. 2. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark holds up the trophy after beating Vera Zvonareva from Russia in the final at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Paul Chiasson)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, listens to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
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A1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk,Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea, and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)
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This1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk, Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)
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Crew members of the nuclear submarine Kursk, one of Russia's largest and most advanced submarines, stand on the ship deck during the naval parade in Severomorsk in this July 30, 2000 photo. Kursk Captain Gennady Lyachin stands at right. The Kursk submarine tragedy that killed 118 crew members was caused by fuel exploding in one of its torpedoes, the governmental commission investigating the accident has found, according to a news report Monday, July 1, 2002.(AP Photo/ Str)
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Russia rescue personnel return from a dive in a mini submarine to the Kursk on the sea bed in the Barents Sea, Friday, Aug. 18, 2000. The mini submarine was forced for unexplained reasons to surface in emergency mode after this dive. Exhausted Russian rescue workers in mini-submarines finally reached a badly mangled escape hatch on the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Friday, but failed to get into the shattered vessel or find any sign of life. (AP Photo/RTR-Russian Television Channel)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of an Emergency Ministry Beriev Be-200 amphibian multirole jet flying a water drop over forest fires in Russia's Ryazan region, some 111 miles southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)
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REMNANTS OF WAR: A South Ossetian honor guard pays his respects at a war memorial in the village of Khetagurovo on Sunday amid the wreckage of cars burned during the brief Russia-Georgia war in August 2008. Russian troops have stayed in South Ossetia to this day. (Associated Press)
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Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, serves to Flavia Pennetta, of Italy, during the Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament in Carlsbad, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to the Cabinet at a meeting, in Moscow's Kremlin, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP photo/RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)
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People have rest in Kolomenskoye park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 15, 2010. A heat wave hit central Russia, breaking temperature records going higher than 30 C (86 F) for at least two weeks. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Argentina's David Nalbandian reacts after he defeated Russia's Mikhail Youzhny during their Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal tennis match in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Serena Williams of the United States celebrates a point win over Russia's Vera Zvonareva during their women's singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Serena Williams, left, of the U.S. serves as her sister Venus waits at the net during their doubles match against Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon on Saturday, June 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Serena Williams makes a forehand return to Maria Sharapova of Russia, during their women's singles match on the Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Monday, June 28, 2010.
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Associated Press President Obama and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev leave a news conference at the White House on Thursday. Mr. Obama said he succeeded in "resetting" the U.S.-Russia relationship.
