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Despite U.S.–Russia relations becoming strained during the Bush administration, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev (president from May 2008 until May 2012, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister during this period) and U.S. president Barack Obama struck a warm tone at the 2009 G20 summit in London and released a joint statement that promised a ...
In international affairs, Putin had made increasingly critical public statements regarding the foreign policy of the United States and other Western countries. In February 2007, at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, he criticized what he called the United States' monopolistic dominance in global relations, and claimed that the United States displayed an "almost unconstrained ...
President Medvedev and President Obama in Moscow, July 6, 2009 (Photo: White House) The Obama–Medvedev Commission, officially known as the U.S.–Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, was announced on July 6, 2009 by President of the United States Barack Obama and President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev during President Obama's visit to Moscow, as a way to improve ...
The United States and Russia : the beginning of relations, 1765-1815 (1980), 1260pp online primary sources; Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N. The Beginnings of Russian-American Relations, 1775-1815. (Harvard University Press, 1975). Dulles, Foster Rhea. The road to Teheran: the story of Russia and America, 1781-1943 (1945) online; Fremon, David K.
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
The Russian-American Company grew interests in other parts of North America, principally Alta California, with smaller focus on Baja California and the Oregon Country. Additionally, some efforts were spent on increasing relations with the Kingdom of Hawaii , with the Schäffer affair being an attempt at colonizing the islands by a company agent ...
Russian Empire–United States relations (1 C, 19 P) Russian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (86 P) Russian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (1 C, 264 P)
President or Prime Minister of Russia Main article January 31–February 1, 1992 New York and Camp David [1] United States: George H. W. Bush: Boris Yeltsin: June 16–17, 1992 Washington, D.C. [1] United States: George H. W. Bush Boris Yeltsin July 8, 1992 Munich [1] Germany: George H. W. Bush Boris Yeltsin January 2–3, 1993 Moscow [1 ...