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Andrew Kuchins, director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush: New Security Relationship with Russia."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin this weekend probably will be their last while Putin is still president. Once again, controlling the threat of nuclear weapons is circling back to American and Russian leaders.
Bush has met with Putin some 20 times, according to an unofficial White House count, more often than with any other foreign leader except Britain's Tony Blair. "Both have invested a lot in this relationship, but they haven't had a big payoff," said Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"I think they would like to reverse that trajectory," Kuchins said in an interview.
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