This opinion column appeared in the International Herald Tribune on Friday before President George Bush and Vladimir Putin “danced” together at the Sochi summit. The author, Oksana Chelysheva, is a journalist and director of the Nizhny Novgorod Foundation for the Promotion of Tolerance and a spokeswoman for the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

Confront the Kremlin By Oksana Chelysheva As President George W. Bush prepares to meet with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dimitry Medvedev in Sochi on Sunday, I hope he will remember the pledge he made in his second inaugural address in 2005. In that memorable speech, he promised that the United States would not ignore oppression and that it would stand with those who stand for liberty.