John Pershing,Washington's deputy special envoy for climate change, says President Obama supports U.S.emission reductions comparable to the European Union and Japan, but wants legally binding commitments from other countries as well.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Funding for Russia's best research institutes amounts to no more than five percent of comparable institutions in the United States, according to a source cited by Thomson Reuters.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03