Mr Obama's meeting with the man widely regarded as the most powerful in Russia is taking place on the second day of the American leader's visit to Moscow. The US president said Mr Putin had done extraordinary work as both president and prime minister. On Monday, Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed eight separate agreements. They included a pact to negotiate a new arms control treaty to replace the 1991 Start I pact which expires in December. A new agreement could see the two countries reducing their nuclear warheads by up to the third, to below 1,700 each within seven years of the treaty's signing.
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