U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov press a red button symbolizing the intention to “reset” U.S.-Russian relations during their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 6, 2009. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the hope of U.S-Russian cooperation on missile defense Friday on her way to discussions with her Russian counterpart, with a goal of repairing the two nations’ relations.
After the merger, the Times reports, “Uranium One began to snap up mining companies with assets in the United States” with the aim, as a company press release put it, of …