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Russia: Obama Letter Has Nothing Concrete

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has received a letter from U.S. President Barack Obama, Medvedev's spokeswoman said on Tuesday after being asked abo...

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Marriage Counseling for the United States and Russia

Jamie Metzl | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Russia, Nonproliferation, Wto, US Russia Relations, Nato, Obama, Arms Control, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

As new leaders, Presidents Obama and Medvedev have an invaluable opportunity to reestablish trust and work toward a stronger partnership based on shared interests.

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Double Jeopardy: Putin's Vengeful Miscarriage of Justice

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Yukos Oil, State Department Human Rights Report, Nato, Platon Lebedev, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News

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.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anti-Putin Oil Tycoon, Gets New Trial

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and l...

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Is There a Split in Kremlin?

Neil Hicks | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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Medvedev's conciliatory gestures may be a good cop/bad cop tactic orchestrated by Putin. Churchill's famous analogy to "bulldogs fighting under a rug" to describe Russian politics remains apt.

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Russia Vows To Help US Stabilize Afghanistan

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing...

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Russia-US Deal Could Save Money, Halt Iran Advance: Commentary

Times Online | Bronwen Maddox | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Medvedev, President Barack Obama, Nuclear Power, President Obama, North Korea, Vladimir Putin Russia, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Iran, Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Obama Foreign Policy, Dmitri Medvedev, Foreign Policy, World News

If President Obama really manages to pull together a deal with Russia that cuts each country's stockpile of nuclear warheads by four fifths it will be...

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Russia's Economic Crisis Leads To Mounting Protests

The Independent | By Shaun Walker in Moscow | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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The Kremlin's rule is beginning to look much shakier than at any time since Vladimir Putin came to power, after a series of protests in cities across ...

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Playing Devil's Advocate for Putin

Robert Coalson | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with opposition journalists and makes surprisingly enlightened utterances while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is out of the country.

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Russia Abandons Plans For Nuclear-Capable Missiles In Move To Improve Relations With US

The Guardian | Luke Harding | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Kaliningrad, Missiles, Barack Obama, Central Europe, Russia, The Kremlin, Moscow, Nuclear, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

Russia today announced it was abandoning plans to deploy nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its European Kaliningrad outpost - a sign that Moscow wa...

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Russia Ready To Cooperate With US On Afghanistan

AP | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States...

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New Website Lets Russians Make Suggestions To Obama

New York Times | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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On Tuesday, even before President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that "America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and chi...

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Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev Ski In Nearly Identical Outfits (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style

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On Sunday January 4th, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin skiied together outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi while...

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The Sochi Tea Party

Brian Whitmore | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Sochi, Russian Economy, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Sochi Tea Party, World News

There was likely more to this little puff piece than an editor looking for some light filler for the evening news broadcast.

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Russia's Teetering Tandem

Robert Coalson | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

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Perhaps the turmoil within the ruling elite during the 2007-08 transition, which seemed quite smoothly managed from the outside, was more discomfiting to the Kremlin than we previously thought.

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A Test for Russia's Unity

Robert Coalson | Posted 02.03.2009 | World

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Instead of increasing the investment of average people in the stability of the system by, say, making elections fairer and more frequent, the Kremlin is moving in the opposite direction.

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Russia's President Hopes For Better Ties With US Under Obama

AP | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Russia's president said Wednesday he hopes his country will be able to develop better ties with the United states under Barack Obama's ...

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Russia Buys 70 New Strategic Nuclear Weapons

Guardian | Tom Parfitt | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

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Russia is to increase sharply its production of strategic nuclear missiles, throwing down the gauntlet to the US president-elect, Barack Obama, who wo...

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Russia Threatens American Hegemony with Fighter Jets to Lebanon

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

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After suffering serious losses during the 2006 summer war with Israel, Hezbollah reportedly increased its weapons arsenal three-fold, though they should have disarmed.

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Russian President Medvedev Heckled At Kremlin (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — It's not every day that Kremlin gets a heckler. President Dmitry Medvedev was giving a speech to scientists and bureaucrats Friday mar...

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Russia, OPEC A Good Fit, Medvedev Says

AP | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Opec, Russia OPEC Deal, Business News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev suggested Thursday that Russia could coordinate its oil output with OPEC as the cartel gears up for a crucial...

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Putin: Obama May Ease US-Russian Tensions

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Russia's leaders expressed hope Thursday that relations with the United States will improve after President-elect Barack Obama takes of...

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Medvedev To Meet Fidel, As Russia Rebuilds Latin American Relations

Guardian | Posted 12.29.2008 | World

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President Dmitry Medvedev was due to hold talks with Fidel Castro tonight to rebuild Russia's relations with Cuba almost a decade after they ended in ...

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Growing Panic For Russian Government As Economy Crumbles

Daily Telegraph | Adrian Blomfield | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Russian Economy, Crumbling Russian Economy, Russian Government Economic Crisis, Bad Russian Economy, Russian Economic Crisis, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Politics News

And sure enough, at a time when their country is locked in its worst financial crisis in a decade, they are more optimistic about the economy than the...

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