It may surprise many readers to hear that anti-Americanism represents one of the cardinal principles of current Russian domestic policy. Obama, however, is doing his best to change that.
AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia said Friday they had agreed to maintain the provisions of a major nuclear arms control treaty just hou...
Times Online | Tony Halpin | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades, but the dictator is a step closer to rehab...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
Blood libel is Putin's Big Lie, and it is the ultimate mendacious recourse that the Kremlin falls back upon in times of desperation.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Late on Monday the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a rupture of the abdominal membrane causing death. How many more dead Russians will it take before the world takes notice?
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
SHANGHAI — President Barack Obama sought a political balance Monday on his first trip to China, seeking help on urgent global problems while wei...
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
MOSCOW — Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
It's clear that Iran's strongest adversary today remains within its own borders. The current Iranian regime has far more to fear from its own people than it does from any foreign powers.
David Paul | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Nearly all analyses of important international relationships, whether internal or external, see the countries' systems through a prism that hides the power of clans and cabals.
guardian.co.uk | Luke Harding and David Hearst in Moscow | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Vladimir Putin today gave his strongest indication so far that he is planning to get his old job back as president, hinting that he is considering a r...
Ginny Dougary | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev is still a man who strides the global stage -- and maintains a keen interest in domestic politics. I spoke to him about power, presidents, Putin and life after Raisa.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
Ukraine's president has been heavily criticized for 'anti-Russian behavior' by Russian President Medvedev, BBC reports. Medvedev launched his verbal ...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
If Secretary Gates is looking to save money and make us safer, there is no better place to start than by eliminating the security liabilities we promote in our arsenal of nuclear clunkers.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
The grotesque level of corruption in both Russia and Venezuela should stimulate the discussion as to whether their predatory natures constitute not only an international crime, but also a breach of fundamental human rights.
AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said U.S. efforts to mend relations with Moscow need not be made at the expense of Washington's ties ...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
If we envision a nuclear-free world, the agreement reached by Medvedev and Obama to reduce their nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads can easily seem minimalist in the extreme.
AP | ROLAND LOSCH and GEIR MOULSON | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
MUNICH — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he is confident that the killer of a prominent human rights activist will be found and ...
AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — A group of prominent former Eastern European leaders wrote to President Barack Obama on Thursday that their region is gripped b...
Eric Margolis | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Russia holds a nuclear gun to America's head, as America does to Russia's head. The two great powers cannot and must not risk crises when nuclear annihilation is only a button-push away.
Steven Crandell | Posted 08.11.2009 | World
There is no doubt that the time is right for our President to assert the importance of working through global cooperation to achieve the mutally-desirable goal of planetary survival.
AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia will still deploy missiles near Poland if the United States pushes ahead with a missi...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
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.
Matvey Ganapolskiy | Posted 12.15.2009 | World