Russian president hopeful for Obama summit

MOSCOW—Russia's president said in a video released Thursday that he's hopeful an the upcoming summit with Barack Obama will help Moscow and Washington find new ways to cooperate. Dmitry Medvedev 's comments were the latest in a string of upbeat statements from Moscow ahead of Obama's first trip to Russia as U.S. president, beginning Monday. That's raised expectations that the two leaders will reverse the sharp slide in relations that has occurred in recent years over disputes such as miss

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