House Speaker John Boehner, in his anti-Russian rant to the Heritage Foundation this week, puts partisan politics and ideology above the best interests of his own country. He is either too ignorant or unqualified to make sober judgments about U.S.-Russian relations and Russia's future. As President Obama understands, Russia is...

The main goal of the Presidential address was to show the country and the world that he had learned his lessons of the midterm elections at which the Democrats sustained heavy losses, that he was ready to move towards the center of the political spectrum and was determined to...

After the midterm elections results were first announced, some Russian and American experts rushed to make public statements that the Republican gain of majority in the House of Representatives could have a negative impact on the Obama administration's policy of "resetting" relations with Russia. It seems that this conclusion may...

This is the full version of the article, published in the National Interest on-line on 07/15/2010

The recent summit in Washington, DC and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tour of the Eastern European countries and the post-Soviet space that followed the Summit give us an opportunity to evaluate the current...

On April 24 every year the U.S. President addresses the American people and the world to express solidarity with those who pay tribute to the 1915 genocide victims when 1.5 million Armenians were destroyed in the Ottoman Empire.

Every presidential candidate promises to the U.S. Armenian community...

President Obama's call last year for a reset in relations between Russia and the U.S. was initially met with a good deal of skepticism. When Presidents Medvedev and Obama signed off on the START arms reduction treaty in Prague on April 8, however, the leaders initiated the most tangible product...

Russian-American relations face several serious challenges, the resolution of which will help determine whether the year-old "reset" initiative has any real substance or is merely a shift in tone. The latest challenge: The ongoing presidential election in Ukraine.

The elections have already seen Ukrainian politicians using anti-Russian and anti-American rhetoric...