President Barack Obama will visit Russia next week, and he said Thursday his agenda includes talks on a new treaty to reduce the number of long-range nuclear missiles. Obama said in an Associated Press interview that it is important that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin—Medvedev's predecessor—hear the same message from the United States. Asked why he will meet with Putin, Obama said the former president “still has a lot of sway.” He added that he believes Putin “has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.”
