"I just want to mention that I will be travelling to Russia next week, and the visit, in my judgement, is overdue. I look forward to that, and particularly given the range of issues that we need to discuss, from Syria to Iran to the upcoming G-8 summit in a little more than a month," Kerry told reporters yesterday.
This would be the first top level bilateral exchange between the two countries after the last month's Boston bombing in which two Chechen brothers are suspected to be involved.