Vladimir Putin: Obama

Obama: Obama's comments at a White House news conference Friday came two days after cancelling a planned summit with Putin next month. Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel ended talks with their Russian counterparts to see where co-operation is possible, according to Times Colonist. Obama said Putin's return to the Kremlin last year had brought about "more rhetoric on the Russian side that was anti-American, that played into some of the old stereotypes about the Cold War contest between the United States and Russia." WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said he was reassessing the tense U.S. relationship with Russia because of a growing number of issues on which the two countries differ, and he called on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to "think forward as opposed to backward" and abandon a Cold War mentality. Those officials said they had made some tangible results on the push for a political solution to the crisis in Syria, among other issues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.