1.0 link 157382 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/boris-mamlyuk/towards-a-biden-putin-com_b_157382.html When Senators Obama and Biden are sworn in next week, they will face immediate challenges ranging from the need to pass a new economic stimulus plan, responding to the Gaza war, implementing a new Iraq/Afghanistan policy, etc., with perhaps the most important being to lower the public's expectations for a quick turnaround. Indeed, with the gravity of issues at stake in Obama's first 100 days, I suspect Russia and U.S./Russian relations will not make the top of the chart, despite...

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