Gates to meet with Russian president on Moscow visit
By Charley Keyes, CNN Senior National Security Producer

St. Petersburg, Russia (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Moscow Tuesday while Russia's two most powerful leaders publicly argued over the U.S. and allied mission in Libya.
Gates is scheduled to hold meetings with Russian President Dimitri Medvedev and other top officials.
Not on the itinerary is Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who a day earlier delivered a scorching critique of the attacks on Libya and the U.N. resolution that authorized the United States and allies to launch the mission.
Putin, with politically loaded language, compared the resolution to a medieval appeal for a crusade. Under Medvedev, Russia abstained from the U.N. vote, stopping short of a veto that Putin might have preferred.
Gates has stayed on the sidelines of the Medvedev-Putin clash. In public events Monday, he avoided speaking about Libya and told Russia's Interfax news agency that the United States only wants a limited role in the Libyan mission.
"While we have had a major role in the first two or three days, I expect us very soon to recede back into a supporting role with other nations carrying a significant proportion of the burden in -- implement and enforcing the no-fly zone," Gates said in the Interfax interview according to a transcript provided by the Defense Department. "And the president has made very clear the United States will not put any forces in Libya, on Libyan soil."
Gates has maintained that the fate of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is in the hands of his people.
"I think it's pretty clear to everybody that Libya would be better off without Gadhafi. But that is a matter for the Libyans themselves to decide," Gates told Interfax.