Remnick as Russia Pundit
New Yorker editor David Remnick, who once worked at the Washington Post bureau in Moscow and has written a book and many articles on the country, made a special appearance on NBC Nightly News, with even more content made available online. Blogging on Huffington, Rachel Sklar writes “Remnick’s succinct, brilliantly simple yet detailed explanation of Russia’s critical importance felt like an indictment of the Bush administration, which, in addition to eroding U.S. moral authority also happened to ignore the fact that Putin’s Russia has nuclear weapons, borders on Iran and is run by an autocratic, power-driven leader whose soul may not have turned out to be so easily assessed.” About time for people to start calling attention to Russia’s importance. See her text of the interview after the cut.
