Wednesday, August 7, 2013

President Obama has canceled a trip to Moscow that had been scheduled for next month, where he would have met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Reasons for the cancellation include "a lack of progress in bilateral relations" since Putin retook the presidency, recently-passed laws against certain behavior by gays, and the Russian government's decision to grant temporary asylum to accused leaker Edward Snowden.

Read more at CNN, The Hill, NBC News, Reuters, the Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post.

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