Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials.
The events unfolding in Boston have underscored the threat Chechen radicals with ties to al Qaeda pose to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, experts said.
Close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Arkady Rotenberg is set to make the equivalent of billions of dollars in contracts for projects leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The United States and other Western nations should be doing more to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s human rights violations, members of Congress and foreign policy experts said Monday during a United States-Russia relations event hosted by the Foreign Policy Initiative, Freedom House, and the Institute of Modern Russia.
President Barack Obama faces manifold threats and challenges, foreign and domestic, as he begins his second term in office.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has spent much of the past decade in Siberian labor camps, will have his 13-year jail sentence reduced. According to Reuters, the fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin will be released from prison in October 2014.
Obama and Biden have criticized Mitt Romney for suggesting that Russia is America’s primary geo-political threat—even though they were saying much the same on the campaign trail in 2008.
America’s broadcast voice in Russia will soon be silenced following Moscow’s ratification of a new law that will force a legendary broadcasting company to abandon the Russian airwaves.
You are probably eager to vote on Nov. 6. You have followed the news closely, watched the ads, listened to the conventions, and waited for the debates. If you are like most people, you are worried about the direction of the country, and for good reason.
President Obama’s so-called reset with Russia “has failed” and the Kremlin remains a top “geo-political foe,” according to a senior Romney campaign adviser who noted that the GOP challenger would pressure Moscow to clean up its poor human rights record.
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