The White House officially announced the participation of Bush in the G8 summit
11:16 // 07/07/2006 The White House officially announced the upcoming trip of US President George Bush to Russia for the Big Eight summit in St. Petersburg. Such a statement was distributed on Tuesday by his press service. "The US President will go to St. Petersburg to participate in the Big Eight summit July 15-17," the document says. The forum is attended by the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA, ITAR-TASS reports.