In the phone conversation, Bush pledged to continue to foster ties with Russia by sending Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to Russia after the G-8 meeting in Genoa, Italy, July 20 to 22, the spokesman said.

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Some of the hard consonants will be replaced by softer ones (k's by g's, for example), while some o's will give way to eo and u's to eu.

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