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Russia - Relations with U.S. (Notes)

U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS The United States and Russia share common interests on a broad range of issues, including counterterrorism and the drastic reduction of our strategic arsenals. Russia shares our basic goal of stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. We are working with Russia to compel Iran to bring its nuclear programs into compliance with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737. On North Korea, Russia is a participant in the Six-Party Talks aimed at the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program. Russia also takes part in the Middle East Peace Process 'Quartet' (along with the UN and the EU). Russia now interacts with NATO members as an equal through the NATO-Russia Council but without veto power over NATO decisions. During the past several years, Russia has intensified its efforts to combat trafficking in persons. We are cooperating in the fight against HIV/AIDS. U.S. Assistance to Russia For more detailed information on U.S. Government assistance to Russia, please see the annual reports to Congress on U.S. Government Assistance to and Cooperative Activities with Eurasia, which are available in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs section on the State Department's website. A fact sheet on FY 2006 U.S. Assistance to Russia can be found at http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/66166.htm. Principal U.S. Embassy Officials Ambassador--William J. Burns Deputy Chief of Mission--Daniel A. Russell Counselor for Political Affairs--Alice Wells Counselor for Economic Affairs--Eric Schultz Counselor for Commercial Affairs--Beryl Blecher Counselor for Consular Affairs--Kurt E. Amend Counselor for Management Affairs--James Melville Counselor for Public Affairs--James J. Kenney Counselor for Science and Technology--Kristina Kvien, Acting Director, U.S. Agency for International Development--Terry Meyers Legal Attache--James Treacy DHS/Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)--Tom Curley Department of Energy--James M. Whitney National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)--Dennis McSweeney See also the Key Officers List The U.S. Embassy is located in Russia at Bolshoy Devyatinskiy Pereulok, Number 8, 121099 Moscow (tel. [7](095) 728-5000; fax: [7](095) 728-5090). Consulates General Consulate General, St. Petersburg--Furshtadskaya Ulitsa 15; tel. [7] (812) 331-2600; Mary Kruger, Consul General Consulate General, Vladivostok--32 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa; tel. [7] (4232) 30-00-70; John Mark Pommersheim, Consul General Consulate General, Yekaterinburg--Ulitsa Gogolya 15; tel. [7] (343) 379-30-01; John Stepanchuk, Consul General In Moscow, the U.S. Commercial Office is located at Bolshaya Molchanovka 23/38 (tel. [7](095) 737-5030; fax: [7](095) 737-5033). In St. Petersburg, the U.S. Commercial Office is located at Nevsky Prospekt 25 (tel. [7](812) 326-2560; fax: [7](812) 326-2561). In Vladivostok, the U.S. Commercial Office is located at 32 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa (tel. [7] (4232) 30-00-93; fax: [7](4232) 30-00-92). In Yekaterinburg, the U.S. Commercial Office is located at Ulitsa Gogolya 15 (tel. [7](343) 379-3001).