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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) meet on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The man in the middle was not identified. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday that Russia cannot be a direct participant in a planned missile-defense system. "NATO cannot outsource to nonmembers collective defense obligations which bind its members," he said. (Associated Press)
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Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee confirmed Tuesday that the Caps inked Swedish prospect Mattias Sjogren to a two-year deal and that top prospect Evgeny Kuznetsov will remain in Russia for another year. (Michael Connor / The Washington Times)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a business forum in Moscow on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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The legislation would ban free abortions at government-run clinics and prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill without a prescription. -- Russian lawmaker Yelena Mizulina
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President Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin, of Russia, pauses before getting up after running into the goal while attempting a shot against the Tampa Bay Lightning late in the third period in Game 4 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff Eastern Conference semifinal series in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Tampa Bay won 5-3, and swept the series. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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After Tuesday's service for Chernobyl disaster victims at St. Elias Cathedral near the nuclear power plant site in Ukraine, (from left) Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Vladimir and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ring bells in memory of the victims.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right), speaking at a government meeting in the Gorki residence outside Moscow on Friday, may have to negotiate with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) as to which one will be the next elected president of Russia. (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, addressing the State Duma, the parliament's lower chamber, in Moscow on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, said Russia must be "independent and strong" to resist outside pressure. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Washington Capitals center Jason Arnott, center, celebrates his goal with Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, and Marco Sturm (18), of Germany, during the second period in Game 2 of a first-round NHL hockey playoff series on Friday, April 15, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Washington Capitals Mike Green (52), Brooks Laich (21) and Nicklas Backstrom (19), from Sweden, celebrate the game-winning goal by Alexander Semin, top right, from Russia, in the overtime period of Game 1 of a first-round NHL hockey playoff series with the New York Rangers, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in Washington. The Capitals won 2-1.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Washington Capitals' Alexander Semin (28) and Alex Ovechkin (8), both from Russia, celebrate Ovechkin's goal in the third period of Game 1 of a first-round NHL hockey playoff series with the New York Rangers, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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"We were the first to fly to space and have had a great number of achievements, and we mustn't lose our advantage," says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Phoenix Coyotes' Ilya Bryzgalov (30), of Russia, makes a save on a shot by San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture (39) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Friday, April 8, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. The Coyotes defeated the Sharks 4-3. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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San Jose Sharks right wing Dany Heatley (15) is unable to score past Phoenix Coyotes goalie Ilya Bryzgalov (30), of Russia, in the first period of an NHL hockey game in San Jose, Calif., Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Fireworks explode over Moscow to mark the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, Russia's Yuri Gagarin, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski places a candle at the memorial dedicated to his twin brother, Lech, and the other passengers who died in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)
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A Polish officer salutes at the site of the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and more than 90 others a year ago. A ceremony marked the anniversary. (Associated Press)
