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Democracy promotion as a PR stunt.

“U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t discuss the state of Russia’s democracy at their meeting Thursday, two days after Bush criticized Russia for backsliding on democratic reforms. ‘It did not come up,’ U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters.”

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