Photo: #Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address at the Kremlin in Moscow May 10, 2006. Putin said the United States was a "fortress" because of its high defense spending and Russia should follow suit in order to ensure a solid defense of its own.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address at the Kremlin in Moscow May 10, 2006. Putin said the United States was a "fortress" because of its high defense spending and Russia should follow suit in order to ensure a solid defense of its own. (File photo by Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images)

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When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, there was a chance for cooperation where there had once been conflict. But 18 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow are once again icy.

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