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Putin Says U.S.-Russia Compromise Possible

By Madeleine Brand, Don Gonyea

Published June 7, 2007 at 10:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush he will drop his objections to putting elements of a U.S.-backed missile defense shield in eastern Europe if it is located in Azerbaijan.

Earlier this week, Bush had invited Russia to join in the plans, which the White House said is meant to discourage attacks from rogue governments, such as North Korea and Iran.

Putin's offer came after the two leaders met at the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.

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Meanwhile, Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, says the G-8 has a plan to make "substantial cuts" to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.