Obama seeks new start in sagging US-Russia ties

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Obama seeks new start in sagging US-Russia ties

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, speaks during his interview with Italian journalists at at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow, on Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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Obama seeks new ... Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, speaks during his interview with Italian journalists at at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow, on Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
Biden predicts m... U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks to troops at a naturalization ceremony at al-Faw Palace on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden was in attendance as some 237 soldiers from 59 countries tool the oath during his visit to Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
Rove: Palin resi... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)
Biden: US not st... U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, is seen with his son, U.S. Army Capt. Beau Biden, left, at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning Iraqi leaders that U.S. assistance will be jeopardized if the country reverts to ethnic and sectarian violence. Biden began Independence Day by greeting more than 200 U.S. soldiers who were becoming American citizens at a naturalization ceremony in a marble domed hall at one of Saddam Hussein's palaces at Camp Victory, the U.S. military headquarters on the outskirts of Baghdad. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, Pool)
Colin Powell att... FILE -- In this July 1, 2008 file photo, former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks in Providence, R.I., (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Palin takes to W... Sarah Palin along with daughter Bristol, left watch the Juneau Fourth of July parade, as husband Todd, looks over son Trig and grandson, Tripp, Bristol's son, Saturday, July 4, 2009 in Juneau, Alaska. Where is Sarah Palin? A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was keeping a low profile. Her spokesman, David Murrow, said Palin told him she was flying to Juneau, the state capital, for the Fourth of July weekend, but he wasn't sure what activities she planned to attend. (AP Photo/Claire Richardson)
Obama's trip: A ... President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, walk back to their limousine after greeting a crowd at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Saturday, July 4, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
OAS suspends Hon... The Organization of American States meets in emergency session, in at the OAS in Washington, to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the coup that ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Analysis: Palin'... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)
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Obama says Iraq ... Fireworks explode over Washington, as seen from Arlington, Va. during Fourth of July celebration Saturday, July 4, 2009. The Lincoln Memorial can be seen at left, the Washington Monument is at center and the U.S. Capitol is at right. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Group Sotomayor ... In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington. A civil rights group advised by Sotomayor in the 1980's brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored highly enough, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Mrs. Obama bring... FILE -- In this July 16, 2009, file photo, Svetlana Medvedeva, wife of Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev is seen in Moscow. Medvedev's wife Svetlana is pious and discreet and met her husband while she was a schoolgirl. She supports charity and the arts, but has assumed no independent voice on issues facing the country. She dresses conservatively, lacking the edgy fashion sense that has attracted a nationwide following for Michelle Obama who will accompany her husband U.S. President Barack Obama on his summit with the Russian president, this weekend. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)
MOUNTAIN OF DEBT... The soaring national debt is recorded on the National Debt Clock in New York, Friday, July 3, 2009. Already complicating efforts by President Barack Obama and Congress to cope with the worst recession in decades, economists warn that the mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)
Obama tells Russ... President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama cites Mich... President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
GOP urges more s... FILE -- In this Feb. 13, 2009 file photo, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
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House passes maj... President Barack Obama gestures during his joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not shown, Friday, June 26, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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Biden: $19B in h... Vice President Joe Biden gestures while speaking at the Recovery Act Implementation Cabinet meeting, Thursday, June 25, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. From left are, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Biden. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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