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Obama II Downgrades Relations With Russia’s Kremlin?

Posted January 27th, 2013 at 6:17 am (UTC+0)
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Scenes from three weeks of watching US-Russia relations in New York, Washington and Moscow:  Kate, an old high school classmate, tracks me down to ask it if will be safe for her to take her 17-year-old adopted Russian daughter back to Russia for a visit this summer  Ruslan, a 22-year-old adoptee of half-Russian, […]

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The March of Moscow’s Silent Majority?

Posted January 16th, 2013 at 10:13 am (UTC+0)
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During my two-week vacation in the United States, American friends again and again looked at me intently, and then asked: How do Russians see the new ban on Americans adopting Russian children? During the last three months of 2012, the Kremlin read out a steady drumroll of American and international organizations or programs expelled from […]

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