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The U.S. deputy ambassador, Robert Wood, has refused to call the Russian foreign minister or any other Russian diplomat “Mr. President,” as is standard for any man presiding over the council ...
In August 2008, United States-Russia bilateral relations became further strained, when Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. President Bush said to Russia, "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century." [64]
The United States is in no position to make demands, China has said after the top US diplomat warned his Beijing counterpart over the weekend against providing weapons to Russia in its war in Ukraine.
In international affairs, Putin had made increasingly critical public statements regarding the foreign policy of the United States and other Western countries. In February 2007, at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, he criticized what he called the United States' monopolistic dominance in global relations, and claimed that the United States displayed an "almost unconstrained ...
Russia blamed the United States for Germany's energy crisis, by pushing its leaders towards a "suicidal" step, [131] despite previous Russian-Ukrainian gas disputes disrupting Russia's natural gas supply to Europe in 2006 and 2009. [132]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States hit North Korea and Russia on Monday with new sanctions that the Treasury Department said targeted Pyongyang's financial activities and military support to ...
The U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) is an American non-profit organization founded in 2008 that aims to strengthen relations between the United States and Russia and to promote the development of the private sector in the Russian Federation. While initially established with its headquarters in Moscow, the organization attracted negative attention ...
Russia’s ambassador to the US has accused Washington of trying to justify its own actions in fomenting the crisis in Ukraine by alleging Russia had committed crimes against humanity. “We ...