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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

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Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov attends a wreath laying ceremony to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin walls in central Moscow February 23, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov The director of the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, will head the country's delegation at a summit on countering violent extremism hosted by US President Barack Obama, FSB said on Wednesday.
This would be a rare visit by a senior Russian official to Washington after relations have fallen to their lowest since the fall of the Soviet Union following Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, its continued involvement in the Ukraine conflict and Western sanctions imposed in retaliation.

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