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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) -- President Bush's summertime meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bush family's oceanfront estate is about lobsters, legacies and a break from increasing tensions. Relations between Washington and Moscow are strong, but on the skids, and both Bush and Putin want to massage those relations before leaving office. "It's not a secret the amount of disagreements is rising," Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Putin, said Friday. "Sometimes it's inevitable. I...

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BAKU (Reuters) - Official delegations from Azerbaijan and Armenia have toured each other's capitals for the first time since the two countries met in 1994 to agree a ceasefire to a war that killed thousands.

The predominantly Armenian populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in the late 1980s, triggering a 1992-94 war between Armenian-backed separatists and the Azeri army that killed more than 35,000 people.

Borders between Azerbaijan and Armenia are still closed and official ties severed although the Azeri and Armenian president do meet on foreign soil for talks from time to time.

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BAKU (Reuters) - Official delegations from Azerbaijan and Armenia have toured each other's capitals for the first time since the two countries met in 1994 to agree a ceasefire to a war that killed thousands.

The predominantly Armenian populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in the late 1980s, triggering a 1992-94 war between Armenian-backed separatists and the Azeri army that killed more than 35,000 people.

Borders between Azerbaijan and Armenia are still closed and official ties severed although the Azeri and Armenian president do meet on foreign soil for talks from time to time.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Accusations by the United States that Russia has backtracked on democracy are unfair, President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide was quoted as saying two days before Putin meets U.S. President George W. Bush.

Washington has criticized Moscow for rolling back democratic post-Soviet reforms and alongside rows over a U.S. missile shield plan in Europe and the status of the Serb province of Kosovo, relations between the two countries have sunk to a post Cold-War low.

"We consider unfriendly the recent intensification of criticism of Russia for allegedly retreating from democratic values and norms," Russian news agencies reported Sergei Prikhodko as saying on Friday.

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