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The International Association of Athletics Federations found Russia had not reformed its state-sponsored track and field programs sufficiently to warrant reinstatement into international competition.

The administration has modified sanctions against Russia's domestic intelligence agency put in place in December under President Obama.

The talk with the Russian president is just one of five that Trump has scheduled Saturday. By the end of the day, Trump will have also spoken with leaders from Japan, Germany, France and Australia.

Russia, Iran and Turkey will reportedly sign an agreement to "create a trilateral mechanism" to enforce the cease-fire that was reached last month.

"At this point, we're being manipulated by the Russians at very little cost to them. Things pop up, and we go into a frenzy," Thomas Graham of Kissinger Associates tells NPR in a rare interview.

A spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry announced the extension on Facebook, while ridiculing a former deputy CIA chief. Snowden is in exile in Russia; his supporters have called for a pardon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump won a "convincing victory."

The Georgia Democratic congressman said in an interview Friday he didn't view Trump as a "legitimate president" amid reports that Russian cyberattacks had intended to influence the elections.

Critics have long raised concerns about Gen. Michael Flynn's relationship with Moscow. The nominee for national security adviser was in regular contact in December with Russia's ambassador to the U.S.