Moscow
Rice woos Russians: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared during her visit to Moscow this week that there would be no “new Cold War.” After meeting with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Rice said both sides had agreed to cool the inflammatory rhetoric. “We did talk about the need to keep the temperature down,” she said. In recent speeches, Putin has compared the Bush administration to the Nazis and accused the U.S. of “plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts.” The need for decorum was just about the only point of agreement. Rice said Russia and the U.S. are still at odds over the status of Kosovo and the stationing of a U.S. missile–defense base in Europe.
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