Russia, unlike US, supports Asia for top U.N. post 2006-02-10 03:47 By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Russia said a successor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should be an Asian and threw cold water on U.S. suggestions that the next top U.N. diplomat could come from any region in the world. "We prefer to follow the traditional way of tackling the issue, of handling the matter of election of new secretary general," Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrei Denisov said on Thursday. He added that it was Asia's turn for job. Denisov also disagreed with U.S. Ambassador John Bolton's...