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Vice President Joe Biden met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Munich on Saturday, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. Click on slide for a readout of this meeting
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On February 1, 2013, John Forbes Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States. He will address employees upon his arrival at the State Department on Monday, February 4 at 9:00 a.m.
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President Frankiln D. Roosevelt on this victory: "[T]he decisive result which all Americans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Nazism and its emulators." Click on slide to read more.
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the U.S."
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Nonimmigrant Visa Section Head Bill Bistransky discusses visas in his interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets daily (in Russian).
Important Consulate Announcements
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Kerry Offers View of U.S. Role in More Interconnected World
Washington — The United States needs to assert a new role in the world to meet the challenge of a young generation seeking greater opportunities and their right to participate as individuals in their governance, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his nomination hearing to be the next U.S. secretary of state.
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Important Notice for Diversity Visa (DV) 2012 Entrants (PDF - 7 KB)
Successful entrants are encouraged to send in their required documents to the Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) immediately, so that an interview appointment at the appropriate U.S. Embassy or consulate can be scheduled before the program ends. In order for an appointment to be scheduled with either a U.S. Embassy or Consulate, entrants must first submit the Form DSP-122 and Form DS-230 to KCC. Embassies and consulates...
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Elections 2012
Elections 2012
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New Video Project
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Baseball in Russia
Helping Baseball Take Root in Russia
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Culinary Corner
Learn More about American Cuisine
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John Quincy Adams
Diary Entries from 200 Years Ago
Consulate News
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President Putin’s Signing of An Historic U.S.-Russia Visa Agreement
Thanks to the agreement, three-year, multiple-entry visas for stays of up to six months will become the standard “default” terms for U.S. citizens visiting Russia and Russian citizens visiting the United States.
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V. V. Mayakovsky Public Library Presents...
St. Petersburg Reads! 2013
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Russian Academy of Sciences Presents...
American Members of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences
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Bureau of International Information Programs' Project
The Soviet Union & the United States Together in WWII
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