The U.S. was focused on al Qaeda, and the Russians were focused on Chechnya.
Given the past history of Mr Dudley and the Russians the deal is pleasing although surprising.
And the Russians need Europe to pay the bills as much as Europe needs their products.
He will succeed of that I am sure, and the Russians will give him support.
They have stepped on Russian toes, and the Russians are not going to be happy about this.
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The Dominicans and the Russians were a little skeptical about duck gizzards but soon learned to appreciate them.
They got the British, the Americans, and the Russians to back their initiative.
And as the British discovered in the 19th century and the Russians in the 20th, Afghans unite against foreign domination.
Nick is one of the cultural touchstones up here, something Sledge and I and the Russians can all get behind, whereas E.
Sir Patrick wrote dozens of books on astronomy and his research was used by the US and the Russians in their space programmes.
And the Russians are undoubtedly very happy to hear that a high level of U.S. officials will be coming to Russia to discuss that possibility.
And the international community -- notably the United States's key European allies and the Russians -- will continue to block any consensus on coordinated military responses.
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But Mr Sarkozy and the British worked on a clever UN resolution that got the Americans on-side and neutralised the opposition of the Chinese and the Russians.
And the Russians want to remind us that the day after the fall of a leader in country X, Y or Z, that the political transition, the political process goes on.
At the present time, that signal can be jammed very readily and the Russians, whom we have encouraged to learn free market ways, now have on the free market a commercial jammer that you can purchase.
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The Spanish were rocked shortly after, when star striker Villa limped off and was replaced by Fabregas -- and the Russians almost took the lead seconds later when Pavlyuchenko chested down Ivan Saenko's cross inside the box but fired wide.
British, the French and the Russians.
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But we have pursued a policy from the beginning of this administration of building cooperative relationships with the Chinese and the Russians and, frankly, those efforts have yielded concrete benefits that have served U.S. interests as well as Chinese and Russian interests.
They haven't used it since then, but whether or not they and the Russians and the Chinese will vote eventually, depending I guess on Dr Blix and other's reports, for a resolution, or whether they'll vote against but not veto, I don't know.
And the Russians said, well all right, if the Iranians want to possess the whole, what's called the nuclear fuel cycle, that is, to have a guaranteed stream of nuclear fuel for power plants, which involves enriching uranium, we'll do it in conjunction with Iran, but in Russia.
And if Iran is unwilling to constructively take part in that and change its behavior, then, as the President said in the State of the Union, and as the Russians and the French and the Americans said in a letter to the IAEA today, not changing their behavior will have consequences.
With both the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Muallim, and Mr Khatib himself at that time about to go to Moscow, his opposition colleagues clearly feared - and the Russians hoped - that he might somehow get drawn into a dialogue of some sort with Damascus, with no knowing where it might lead.
And that requires the cooperation of nations around the world, nations on the United Nations Security Council -- that goes to what I was discussing earlier about our regular conversations with the Russians and the differences we have with the Russians about the Assad regime in Syria and how to bring about a transition there.
If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.
Over the past couple of weeks, you have seen statements and reactions from the Russians and from the Chinese in support of that process.
So we continue to work with the Russians and our other international partners -- and others have discussions with the Russians and others on this matter.
In 1756, a war broke out between Britain, Prussia and their allies on one side, and the French, the Russians and theirs on the other, that would expand across the Americas and europe, and even into parts of Africa and Asia.
But what would the counterargument be if the Georgians and Russians were able to agree to something vaguely analogous to the tentative rapprochement between the Russians and Poles?
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And though the Russians may promise special treatment for the space programme, they have already made and broken such promises more times than anyone cares to remember.
The irritations over Iran and Iraq are by no means the same but, in each, the French and Russians resent the shadow cast over their trade by American domestic politics.
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