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It would be interesting to know if the military’s top brass are drinking champagne as they sit in their offices on Smolenskaya Ploshchad and Arbat, or if they are cursing those cunning Americans for outmaneuvering Moscow. U.S. President Barack Obama announced late last week that he had made the difficult decision to cancel long-standing U.S. plans to deploy elements of a global missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The prospect of Washington creating a so-called “third position region” (after California and Alaska) close to Russia’s borders had been a main stumbling block in U.S.-Russian relations for the past several years.

During that time, Russia’s leaders had been screaming at every street corner that the deployment of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles constituted a dire threat to Russia. Efforts by Washington to explain that 10 interceptor missiles could hardl ... Read more »

Category: World | Views: 658 | Added by: magictr | Date: 22.09.2009 | Comments (0)

The day after President Dmitry Medvedev’s article “Go Russia!” appeared, I stopped by a little restaurant I know in the center of Moscow. The owner of the establishment had also read Medvedev’s article. Her gut reaction was, “Rather than compose articles, the president should read the laws that he signs.”

I discovered this restaurant during the peak of the 1998 crisis. For some inexplicable reason, its prices remained lower than at neighboring establishments, and the food was always tasty. Not long after, I learned that the owner and I had attended the same school as teenagers, and ever since, I have taken as much pleasure from her success as if it had been my own. Whenever I’m in the area, I always drop in to get a taste of what small business owners are thinking.

The day after Medvedev’s article came out, I found the owner in a bad mood following another hassle with bureaucrats.

“Medvedev deserves a statue in his honor,” she said. “After his call to of ... Read more »

Category: World | Views: 663 | Added by: magictr | Date: 22.09.2009 | Comments (0)

President Dmitry Medvedev will address the UN General Assembly on reforms to international relations, discuss how to end the crisis with leaders of the world’s leading 20 economies, and sit down with heads of state during a visit to the United States this week.

But Medvedev should remember that his country is nowhere near to being the superpower of Soviet days and lags far behind other countries in terms of importance on global financial markets, analysts said Monday.

On a related matter, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday that the president had to cancel a planned meeting with U.S. dissidents because of time constraints.

“Sadly, it was simply impossible to set up such an event within the president’s tight schedule here,” Kremlin spokesman Alexei Pavlov told The Moscow Times by telephone from New York.

Medvedev caused a minor stir last week when he told Western experts on Russia in the Valdai Club that he wanted to speak to dissident ... Read more »

Category: World | Views: 673 | Added by: magictr | Date: 22.09.2009 | Comments (0)

As President Dmitry Medvedev prepares to attend the United Nations General Assembly and the G20 summit in the United States this week, he has an important opportunity to demonstrate a cooperative, forward-looking Russian role on several key issues. The timing could not be more critical. There are a number of converging challenges in Russia’s relationship with the West that urgently need attention from both sides, even though U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s declaration last year that it was time to push the “reset” button on U.S.-Russian relations has been followed by progress on Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty negotiations and U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision last week to ditch a European missile defense shield.

Iran is the most pressing matter for the West and Russia. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s assertion on Sept. 10 that “the sanctions under discussion … are not a mechanism to force Iran to cooperate” reflects continued Russian skeptici ... Read more »

Category: World | Views: 722 | Added by: magictr | Date: 22.09.2009 | Comments (0)

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