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Russia's Alexander Ovechkin (8) chases the puck against Latvia in the first period of a preliminary round men's ice hockey game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Russia's Alexander Ovechkin (8) collides with Slovakia's Lubos Bartecko (23) in the first period of a preliminary round men's ice hockey game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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A police officer stands guard next to flowers placed on the snow in front of the Lame Horse nightclub on Dec. 5, 2009, in Perm, Russia, where a fire broke out after pyrotechnics set plastic and decorative twigs on a ceiling ablaze, killing 152 people. (Associated Press)
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Georgian protesters wearing cowls rally in Tbilisi last week to demand the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili, who led his nation in a war with Russia in 2008 in a failed effort to keep control of breakaway provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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ONE IN A CROWD: President Obama — with Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Hu Jintao of China and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia — backs global financial restructuring. (Getty Images)
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GETTY IMAGES Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presents Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a "reset button" during their meeting in Geneva in 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) and European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso are seen at a joint news conference after their talks in Moscow Friday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) acknowledges Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the 2008 funeral of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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** FILE ** The Pyotr Velikiy, Peter the Great, Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser seen in the Barents Sea, Russia, Russia, in this July, 2004, file photo. The Peter the Great cruiser accompanied by three other ships of Russia's Northern Fleet was to sail from their base in Severomorsk Sunday on a cruise which will include a joint exercise with the Venezuelan Navy, Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said on Vesti 24 television. (AP Photo/File)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with Germany's ARD television in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not be isolated over its conduct in Georgia and warned the Europe not to "serve" the United States. He also stressed Russia does not fear any Western sanctions, saying that if forced to choose between life and sausage, "we choose life." (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
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In this Aug. 19, 2005, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of a supersonic strategic bomber leaving for a training mission, in Moscow.
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Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison on Monday.
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Getty Images Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) and Gazprom chief Alexei Miller visit the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. Mr. Putin expressed concern about the country's declining oil production and said the sector has reached a "critical juncture."
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Bloomberg News President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared comfortable with each other yesterday in Kennebunkport, Maine. On their second day together, the leaders discussed a planned U.S. missile defense system and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
