Not to turn this site into full-time pimpage of my articles, but here’s the latest on Obama’s trip to Moscow and the human rights situation in Russia, from Forbes.com:
And here’s Medvedev’s video blog entry on Obama’s visit and Russian-American relations:
Good Forbes piece, Cathy – the situation in Russia right now sounds like a throwback to Czarist days. It’s better than the Soviet Union, I guess but it still seems strange – it’s as if Germany decided to resurrect the Hohenzollerns, or Austria determined that Europe would benefit from reassembling the Hapsburg dominions. I’ve never seen a European power try to pretend that the First World War never happened before – it’s rather fascinating!