From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-575132-522906
MOSCOW (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama will seek Russian
cooperation in preventing climate change through better energy
technology in a Moscow visit, officials said.
Obama flies to Russia on Monday for a busy round of talks.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, preparing for the session, said
Russia was ready for a fresh start with Obama, the Moscow Times
reported.
Michael McFaul, Obama's special assistant and senior director for
Russian and Eurasian affairs, said energy will be a major topic for
talks with Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
"In particular, we want to have conversations about diversification of
supplies out of Russia and through the region in a way that it's not
thought about in a zero-sum way," he said. Russia has recently said it
wants to be the major energy supplier to Europe, and has been buying
up natural gas supplies from neighboring producers.
"It's not, in our view, a zero-sum game, that if it's two points for
Russia it's negative two for us," McFaul said, urging the seeking of
possible ways both countries can advance their interests at the same
time through cooperation.