Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bush ya jaddada ƙirƙirar dangantaka ta sirri tare da shugaban Rasha Vladimir Putin don tabbatar da kyakkyawar dangantaka tsakanin Amurka da Rasha. Bayan ganawa da Putin a watan Yunin 2001, shugabannin biyu sun nuna kwarin gwiwa game da hadin gwiwa tsakanin tsoffin abokan hamayya na Cold War. Bayan hare-haren 11 ga Satumba, Putin ya ba Amurka damar amfani da sararin samaniyar Rasha, kuma Putin ya ƙarfafa jihohin Asiya ta Tsakiya don ba da haƙƙin kafawa ga Amurka A watan Mayu na 2002, Amurka da Rasha sun rattaba hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Rage Ragewa
, wanda ya nemi ya rage yawan makaman nukiliya na kasashen biyu. Dangantaka tsakanin Bush da Putin sun yi sanyi a lokacin wa'adin Bush na biyu, yayin da Bush ya zama mai sukar sukar Putin game da murkushe abokan hamayyar siyasa a Rasha, kuma sun fadi zuwa sabon rauni bayan barkewar Yakin Rasha da Georgia a shekarar 2008.