Obama chides Putin's 'cold war ways

On the eve of a trip to Moscow, 's prime minister, today for keeping "one foot in the old ways of doing business". By contrast, he said Putin's handpicked successor as president understands that cold war behaviour is outdated. In a White House interview with The Associated Press, the president said he will meet with both Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, on his trip, in hopes they can "move in concert in cooperating with us on some critical issues." On an important domestic issue, Obama said the US supreme court was "moving the ball" on affirmative action in this week's decision favouring white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, but he added that the court had not ruled out the use of racial preferences. "I don't think that hiring on the basis of race ... alone is constitutionally plausible," said Obama, a... [read full story]                    

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