1.0 link 224469 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-legendre/a-place-for-human-rights_b_224469.html In a week, President Obama will travel to Moscow to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The agenda items of the summit in Moscow are of course numerous and complex, but it would be a mistake to let human rights concerns get lost in the mix. High among those concerns is the troubling rise in hate crimes in Russia, the government's inadequate response to this trend, and increased harassment -- including at times murder -- of human rights defenders. These...

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