There's a reason Russian President Vladimir Putin recently called U.S. President Obama. It wasn’t to talk about Ukraine, the weather or the International Space Station. It was to discuss and coordinate a response to the growing threat from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to Russia's soft underbelly in the Caucasus.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the Civic Chamber at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2015.
