Russian youth basketball players arrive in U.S., hit the court with Obama

A group of Russian high school basketball players arrived in Washington for the “first exchange under the bilateral presidential commission, a mechanism established by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, during their summit in Moscow in July 2009,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported. The 13-15 year old students were treated to a shootaround with President Obama on the White House basketball court.

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