Russia’s Misery Loves U.S. Company

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Michael Bohm – Nov. 30, 2012 – Michael Bohm is opinion page editor of The Moscow Times) For many Russian conservatives who still mourn the collapse of the Soviet Union, the “secession” movement in the U.S. has offered some misguided comfort, if not schadenfreude. After the Nov. 6 U.S. presidential election, more than 500,000 Republicans, […]

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Duma Lawmaker Slams U.S. Vote as ‘Unfair’

Russian Duma Building

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Nikolaus von Twickel – November 9, 2012) A prominent State Duma lawmaker who observed the United States presidential election lambasted the vote as “systemically unfair” and riddled with organizational shortcomings. Ilya Kostunov, a deputy for the governing United Russia party, told The Moscow Times on Thursday that large-scale voter disenfranchisement and lax identification procedures rendered […]

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U.S. Can Learn From Russia About Unity

Stylized Russian and U.S. Flags with Number 200, 1807-2007

(Moscow Times editorial – themoscowtimes.com – November 6, 2012) The extended holiday weekend gave us a chance to think about how the U.S. should borrow a page from Russia and introduce a new holiday of its own also called National Unity Day. As Americans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a president, the din from “blue” supporters of incumbent […]

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NEWSLINK: Russia’s view on the US elections: Mitt Romney’s description of Russia as America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe” arrived during a period of increasing anti-American rhetoric in Russian politics

File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Russia’s view on the US elections: Mitt Romney’s description of Russia as America’s “No 1 geopolitical foe” arrived during a period of increasing anti-American rhetoric in Russian politics – The Guardian (UK) – Miriam Elder and Howard Amos – November 6, 2012 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/05/russia-view-us-elections) The Guardian covers the U.S. presidential from the vantage point of U.S.-Russian relations, noting that Russia […]

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NEWSLINK: Which US presidential candidate is better able to meet the challenges ahead?

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(Which US presidential candidate is better able to meet the challenges ahead? – US-Russia.org – Vlad Sobell, Edward Lozansky, Anatoly Karlin, Irina Bubnova, Vlad Ivanenko, and Dale Herspring – November 6, 2012 – http://us-russia.org/519-which-us-presidential-candidate-is-better-able-to-meet-the-challenges-ahead.html) Arguing that “The US presidential election on 6 November is, arguably, the most important such ballot since the Second World War, given both the deep economic […]

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NEWSLINK: Resetting the Reset: The United States needs to decide whether to treat Russia as a marginal global actor or an asset in America’s global strategy.

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(Resetting the Reset: The United States needs to decide whether to treat Russia as a marginal global actor or an asset in America’s global strategy – Foreign Policy – Dmitri Trenin – November 5, 2012 – Dmitri Trenin is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center – http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/05/resetting_the_reset) Writing in Foreign Policy, Dmitry Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Center holds that […]

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NEWSLINK: Russian observers to be literally knocking on doors of US polling stations

File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

Itar-Tass reports how Russian would-be election observers, despite avoiding Texas, still intend to try to visit U.S. polling stations for the U.S. election: Russian observers will be literally “knocking on the doors of the polling stations” at the US presidential elections on Tuesday, State Duma deputy and member of the State Duma committee for security and counteraction to corruption Ilya […]

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U.S. Elections Deepen the Divergence Between Russia’s and Putin’s Interests

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(Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – Eurasia Daily Monitor – Eurasia Daily Monitor: Volume 9, Issue 202 – Pavel K. Baev – November 5, 2012) The choice that the United States will make tomorrow is certain to have a strong impact on US-Russia relations, but President Vladimir Putin cannot figure out what outcome will suit his interests better. Back in 2004, […]

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Russian pundits see ties with USA unaffected by poll outcome

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(Interfax – November 5, 2012) The outcome of the US presidential election will not change Russian-US relations significantly, Russian pundits have said, as reported by the Russian privately-owned news agency Interfax on 5 November. The first vice-president of the Centre for Political Technologies, Aleksey Makarkin, said that Obama’s victory would mean the continuation of the “reset” but problems would still […]

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