Obama will skip APEC in Russia
[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Obama will skip APEC in Russia[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]President Obama will not travel to Russia this year to attend the APEC summit, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is scheduled for Sept. 1-8 in Vladivostok. Obama is scheduled to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Charlotte on Sept. 6.
Media reports have suggested that the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was recently reinstalled into office, and Obama is off to a sour start. Putin decided to skip this week's Group of Eight summit at Camp David, Md., but Obama and the Russian leader are likely to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meetings in Mexico in June.
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