The USA has left the Russia — US presidential
commission’s working group on civil society

According to Kommersant-online, the USA has decided to
leave the presidential commission’s bilateral Russian-American civil society
working group, which was set up in 2009 by Dmitry Medvedev and Barak Obama. The
working group was organised as a symbol of the fresh start in US-Russian
relations. 

More than 20 working groups work within the Russian-US
presidential commission which encompass the fundamental areas of cooperation
between Russia and the US (the war on terror and drugs, nuclear security,
energy, science and technology). 

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