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Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) walks with religious leaders of various denominations at Red Square in Moscow as they go to place flowers at a statue of Minin and Pozharsky, the leaders of a struggle against foreign invaders in 1612, to mark the National Unity Day on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin flies in a motorized hang glider alongside two Siberian white cranes over Russia's Yamal Peninsula on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)
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Former United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton says his major concerns include “the nuclear proliferation issue, as manifested both in Iran and North Korea ... relations with Russia, and the approach to the U.S. intelligence budget,” which is facing a $25 billion cut over the next 10 years. Mr. Bolton is critical of the White House for claiming that the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden last year has diminished his terrorist network. (Associated Press)
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Keenan Kampa, seen here at the Reston Town Center on Aug. 31, 2012, became the first American ballerina to graduate from the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the first American to join the illustrious Mariinsky Ballet. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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Keenan Kampa, seen here at the Reston Town Center on Aug. 31, 2012, became the first American ballerina to graduate from the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the first American to join the illustrious Mariinsky Ballet. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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Artist Alexei Sergiyenko shows off his paintings of Russian President Vladimir Putin during the opening of the exhibition "Putin: The Most Kind-Hearted Man in the World" at the Flacon design workshop in Moscow on Sunday Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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In this handout photo provided by the International Mammoth Committee in Russia on Oct. 5, 2012, the carcass of a 16-year-old mammoth that was possibly killed by humans tens of thousands of years ago and was excavated on the North Siberian Taimyr peninsula on Sept. 28, 2012. Russian scientists say it's one of the best-preserved bodies of a grown mammoth yet found. (Associated Press/Sergei Gorbunov, International Mammoth Committee in Russia)
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This fracking site in Washington, Pa., is one of many in the country shaking up world energy markets as the U.S. moves toward no longer needing to import natural gas. The stakes are particularly large in Russia. “This is where everything is being turned on its head,” said Fiona Hill, an expert on Russia at the Brookings Institution. (Associated Press)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, stroll at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service)
