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Clinton calls Russia a 'great power' after Biden's earlier, harsher remarks

Clinton calls Russia a 'great power' after Biden's earlier, harsher remarks

The secretary of State seeks to calm Moscow after Vice President Biden's recent comments that the country is badly damaged economically and its leadership is clinging to the past.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that the Obama administration viewed Russia as a "great power," despite Vice President Joe Biden's observations that the former rival nation was saddled with deepening economic problems and backward-looking leadership.

 

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