George W. Bush accepted Moscow’s invitation and will come to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin. The US-Russian presidential meeting will take place on April 6 in the city of Sochi, on the Black Sea coast of Russia, after the NATO Summit and after Bush’s visit to Croatia.  Bush will yet again try to convince his Russian counterpart of the need to deploy the missile defense system in Eastern Europe

U.S. President George W. Bush criticized the Russian administration for the heavy hand in breaking up weekend opposition demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin. Separately, U.S. officials vigorously denied Putin's weekend allegations that the United States was behind the decision made by international election observers not to monitor Russian elections coming a few months from now

President Putin is going to make a national address to Russian citizens this week, four days before parliamentary elections on December 2. Putin will deliver his message to the nation as the leader of the United Russia party. It will be his last opportunity to exert influence on the results of the forthcoming elections. Looking back at the closing election campaign in Russia, one may say that Putin decided to fully support the party, which became quite a surprise for many observers

The OSCE didn’t send its observers to monitor Russian elections next week because of U.S. influence, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, according to Russia ’s news agencies.

Another democratic partner of the Russian Federation doubts about the transparency of the forthcoming elections to the State Duma. The U.S. White House supported the OSCE’s decision not to send observers to Russia’s polling stations on December 2, when Russia elects its parliament.

As Russia didn’t issue visas for a leading international organization which was to observe next month's parliamentary elections, its members will not monitor the voting.

The OSCE said Monday that it could have problems with monitoring of the Russia 's parliamentary election next month because the country was delaying visas issuing for the election observers.

US State Department official accuses Russia of intrusion into the affairs of Georgia and Moldova. Yet who is this official, and what authority does he have, to accuse Russia of anything?