Obama cites 'mixed success' in dealing with Putin

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s had mixed success in persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to think “forward as opposed to backward” on a variety of issues and is reassessing the U.S.-Russia relationship.

While senior officials from the two countries met at the State Department, Obama told reporters at a news conference Friday that Putin’s return to the Kremlin last year had brought about “more rhetoric on the Russian side that was anti-American, that played into some of the old stereotypes about the Cold War contest between the United States and Russia.”