Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.
Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.
North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.
Well, I can't say that I saw this coming. In an interview with the Associated Press that hit the wires on July 3, U.S. President Barack Obama droppe...
More than 50 percent of the Russian people believe that "ethnic minorities should be limited or expelled from the country," Alexander Verkhovsky told the HuffPost.
A new force of freedom will not return to Russia soon. The majority does not want it nor understands what it is for.
In Russia, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree that is rarely encountered in other major industrialized economies.
Amid the financial crisis sweeping through Russia, the oligarchs, the country's financial elite, are faced with a dilemma they did not anticipate a mere year ago: how not to go broke?
For those of us who have waited 8 years for good news, Obama's pragmatism can be frustrating, but it's the right strategy for a realistic president confronted with difficult times.
Obama's just-concluded big international tour is part of a major reshuffling in geopolitics. Here are 10 key takeaways from happenings in and around his trip.
The G-20 went well. Not as well as advertised, which is par for most any political course, but much better than most of the Gs -- 7, 8, or 20.
Obama will have to acknowledge a difficult truth -- namely that Russia is not interested in becoming part of the West and believes its interests and those of the West remain distinct.
Is Geithner's plan another bailout to Wall Street? Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?
Aw. If it isn't little Privatizatsia ("Privatization") and darling Viagra, Russian newborns who stand almost no chance of leading happy childhoods thanks to the names bestowed upon them by their parents.
Ever since U.S. Vice President Joe Biden brought forth the "reset-button" theory of U.S.-Russia relations last month, there has been a seeming flood o...
Obama has dispatched an unprecedented series of special envoys and emissaries to deal with both problem areas and areas of opportunity.
Even as the Obama administration may be consumed by efforts to stem the recession, we appear to be at a tipping point in foreign affairs.
Poor George. He can't help it. Even out of office, he reinforces the narcissistic traits that were a hallmark of his failed presidency.
The trumped-up case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is all too illustrative of the decay of democracy, due process, the rule of law and human rights that has occurred in Putin's Russia.
The current killing-spree of Russian dissidents is, in part, an attempt to silence criticisms of crimes in Chechnya.
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I didn't this they would want any South Park at all in the CSSR.
In Soviet Russia South Park watches you.
Where's freedom?
Wrong idea! Putin is going to get a full episode as soon as South Park get back now. Trey and Matt are going to go Phil Collins on him!
Ha ha! Oh man, they were BRUTAL to Phil Collins! Maybe one of Trey's funniest voices ever.
I'll bet Putin loves fishsticks.
Jajajajajajajaja!
what are you a gay fish?
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