DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: As Mr. Clinton enters the final leg of his presidency, his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin is in the initial months of his. So the perspective of their debate become all the more different, yet the two men did find some common ground to share. CNN Matthew Chance is in Moscow. He joins us with more on this. Matthew, Hello.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Daryn. Well, it was a visit that enabled President Clinton to get to know better his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The two haven't met since Mr. Putin was elected into office earlier this year. But President Clinton did fail to reverse, despite those meetings, Russian option to the U.S. planned National Missile Defense System. Speaking at the State Duma, earlier today, the first U.S. president ever to address the lower house of the Russian parliament, President Clinton strongly defended that plan, saying that it would not neutralize Russia's nuclear deterrent, which is of course what Moscow fears. But people in the audience, the deputies, some of them, did not agree with that. One of them in particular, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known throughout Russia and international as something of a ultranationalist fire brand had his own message for President Clinton, shouting at him, trying to ask him to apologize, in his words, for America forcing on economic and democratic reforms in Russia. It's the collapse of the Soviet Union which have resulted in Russia becoming extremely impoverished compared to what it was during the year of the Soviet Union. So a lot of tension there, but generally, it was a well-received speech, despite that. This is Matthew Chance, reporting live from CNN in Moscow.</s>KAGAN: Matthew, thank you very much.
Clinton Addresses Russia's State Duma