Medvedev upbeat before Obama meeting

The Associated Press MOSCOW – President Dmitry Medvedev expressed confidence Tuesday that Russia and the U.S. can mend badly frayed relations, the latest upbeat talk from Moscow before his first meeting with President Barack Obama. Medvedev said he hopes the two will meet in London on April 1, on the eve of an international economic summit. “I think we have every possibility of opening a new page in Russian-American relations,” Medvedev said during a meeting with members of a U.S. commission set up last year with the aim of helping forge Russia policy. “Unfortunately, our relations have deteriorated very significantly in recent years,” Medvedev said in televised remarks from the meeting….

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