Russia and the United States will not lecture...

Vladislav Surkov, widely viewed as a chief Kremlin strategist, is the Russian coordinator of the Civil Society working group within the Russian-U.S. joint presidential commission established during President Barack Obama"s visit to Moscow last July.

The group will gather in Washington for its first meeting next Wednesday to discuss corruption and crimes against children.

"We will not tell each other what to do and what not to do about the topics on the agenda, we will not give lectures," the first deputy head of the presidential administration said to the Russian daily Izvestia.

Moscow blamed the previous U.S. administration of George W. Bush of trying to make the subject of democracy a tool to pressure Russia. Relations between the countries have improved after President Barack Obama took office last year.

However in December, 71 members of the U.S. Congress, mainly Republicans, demanded the Obama administration boycott the Civil Society working group

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