11.03.2008

Putin blasts US for financial crisis

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian leaders blamed the US financial system's irresponsibility for the world economic crisis and said it should top the next American president's agenda, as Washington struggled to calm markets Wednesday.

"Whoever is elected president, the number one goal will be to shed light on the state of the (US) economy," Medvedev told reporters following talks with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero in Strelna, near Saint Petersburg.

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