The chilly relations between Moscow and Washington seemed to have thawed somewhat in the July sunshine during U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day “lobster summit” at Bush’s family home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope today that meetings between U.S. and Russian Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin will lead to a breakthrough over Kosovo's independence.

U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are due today to continue talks aimed at improving relations between the two countries. Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, arrived on July 1 at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

U.S. President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are due to begin a two-day summit at the Bush family's oceanside compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to become the first foreign leader hosted by U.S. President George W. Bush at the Bush family's oceanside retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine.

A leading Russian North America expert said Thursday this weekend's U.S.-Russia summit could pave the way for a dialogue on missile defense, an issue that has sent bilateral relations to their lowest point in years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin's opposition to independence for Kosovo is based on international law and a desire for regional stability.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today called for increased energy cooperation between Russia and southeastern Europe as he outlined a number of new projects in the region.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin held negotiations Friday with his Moldovan counterpart on the long-running conflict in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester province.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been awarded the "Closed Oyster," a satirical prize granted by a German media group for obstructing freedom of the press.

President Vladimir Putin celebrated Russia's profound cultural wealth and resurgent military might Tuesday at a pomp-filled awards ceremony on a holiday initially created to mark the country's emergence from the crumbling Soviet Union.

In a Kremlin ceremony to mark Russia Day, President Vladimir Putin granted the writer and anti-Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn a State Award for humanitarian achievement.