So apparently, President Barack Obama thinks that Peter Baker at the New York Times missed the point on his secret letter to Dmitry Medvedev … but we can be less sure whether or not this even matters, as the Russians have already roundly rej...
During his inauguration speech, U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear that his government would take a clean slate approach to international relations, with the goal of opening up dialogue with countries with whom relations had soured under th...
New Khodorkovsky Trial Presents Test for Medvedev (Bloomberg) “In this trial we’re dealing with a president who has attacked the very legal nihilism that we identified in the first trial,” Robert Amsterdam said in London today in...
If you haven’t already heard, an anonymous source has leaked details of a ‘secret letter‘ Obama sent to President Medvedev last month, in which he offered to stop development of a controversial missile shield in Eastern Eur...
President Medvedev had some interesting things to say to Spanish television today. In a wide-ranging interview (excerpted video here, full version here), Medvedev shares his thoughts on missile defense, energy security, and, of course, the Manas A...
One interesting correlative of recent Russian and American history tends to go unnoticed: both countries are plagued by woefully inadequate national infrastructure networks. But in the wake of the financial crisis, Russia seems to be shelving its ...
It’s been a long time since the Russian media dubbed Norway’s Prime Minister Yens Stoltenberg the Peaceful Viking. Way back in 2005, Stoltenberg sided with the Russians over the proposed US missile shield in Poland, and seemed willing ...
Boris Martynov: «Russia’s geopolitical interest in Latin America needs to be reinforced with economics» Part 2 Grigory Pasko, journalist See part 1 of this interview here. For now at least, the only obvious successes are in the realm of coop...
The 60th anniversary of NATO is nearly upon us, and next week’s much ballyhooed meetings in France and Germany are expected to produce the first revision to NATO’s Strategic Concept in over a decade. Russia will be high on the agenda. ...
The 2008 US Report on Human Rights was unveiled yesterday, and it made some pretty stark conclusions about Russia. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, issued a pretty formulaic response, telling Reuters that “We have problems ...
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