Tag: U.S.-Russian Relations

Russia has no ‘operationally relevant information’ on Boston suspects – source

Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Boston Bombings Aftermath with Ambulance and Security Personnel

(Interfax Moscow, April 20, 2013) Russia has been unable to provide operationally relevant information on brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnayev (Tsarnaev). “Since the brothers Tsarnayev lived outside Russia, our special services were unable to provide our foreign partners with any operationally relevant information,” a source in the Russian special services told Interfax today. However, the source said that “joint work […]

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Chechen Brothers Linked to Boston Bombings

Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Boston Bombings Aftermath with Ambulance and Security Personnel

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko, Jonathan Earle and Ezekiel Pfeifer – April 19, 2013) U.S. authorities have linked two Chechen brothers to the Boston bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170 this week, U.S. media reported Friday. The Russian Foreign Ministry told The Moscow Times that it was aware of the reports and looking into […]

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Boston bombing suspect’s account tracked down to Russia’s VKontakte social network

Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Boston Bombings Suspects File Photo Adapted from FBI Image

(Interfax – April 19, 2013) Internet users have tracked down an account in the social network VKontakte which allegedly belongs to a Boston bombing suspect. Links to the page which Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnayev ran in the network, have emerged on other social networks. There is a notice on Tsarnayev’s page saying that its host last visited it at […]

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Boston bombing suspects’ father: My kids were framed

Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Boston Bombings Suspects File Photo Adapted from FBI Image

(Interfax – MAKHACHKALA, April 19, 2013) An Interfax correspondent has managed to talk on the phone with a man introducing himself as Anzor, the father of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are suspected of committing the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday. “I learned about the incident from TV. My opinion is: the special services have framed my children, because […]

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Magnitsky’s Mother: ‘The List Is About People Who Must Answer For Their Actions’

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – April 19, 2013) The mother and widow of whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky were in Washington on April 17, just days after the White House issued a blacklist of more than a dozen Russian officials implicated in Magnitsky’s prosecution and death in jail in 2009. RFE/RL’s Richard Solash spoke to Magnitsky’s mother, Natalia, at a reception […]

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Kremlin Is Hiding Behind a Blacklist

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(Moscow TImes – themoscowtimes.com – Michael Bohm – April 19, 2013) Michael Bohm is opinion page editor of The Moscow Times. You would have thought that the Kremlin would have shown a little more appreciation for the fact that U.S. President Barack Obama approved only 18 minor figures for the open portion of the Magnitsky list. After all, the original […]

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Kerry Lauds US-Russia Work on ‘Big-Ticket’ Issues

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Children, Adoptions, Orphans, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(RIA Novosti -WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013) ­ US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday praised cooperation between the United States and Russia on a range of issues and said he is “hopeful” that the two countries can bolster bilateral ties despite disagreements over adoptions and human rights. “Even though there have been some bumps in the road, I am […]

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Interview: ‘Magnitsky List Is Anti-Rights Violators, Not Anti-Russia’

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – April 18, 2013) U.S. Representative James McGovern was one of the leading sponsors of legislation that mandated sanctions against Russians implicated in the prosecution and death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, spoke to RFE/RL’s Richard Solash on the sidelines of a Washington reception held on April 17 honoring the Magnitsky family. RFE/RL: […]

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Moscow, Washington Agree Regular Dialogue on Adoptions

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Russian Orphans with Mr. and Mrs. Dmitry Medvedev

(RIA Novosti – WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013) ­ Russia and the United States have agreed to establish regular dialogue on the protection of rights of Russian children adopted by US families, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday after talks with US officials in Washington. “There is a mutual understanding that the dialogue must be improved and expanded,” said Konstantin Dolgov, […]

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Georgian parliamentarian slams Saakashvili recollection of U.S. role in August 2008 war

Georgia
Mikheil Saakashvili file photo

(Interfax – TBILISI. April 17, 2013) A member of the Georgian parliamentary majority harshly criticized some of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s recollections of details of the August 2008 war with Russia over South Ossetia in an interview shown on Rustavi-2 television. “Saakashvili’s statement that the United States considered the possibility of bombarding the Roki Tunnel during the August war will certainly […]

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Closed part of Russia’s response to Magnitsky List longer than open – source

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Kremlin and Moscow Environs Aerial View

(Interfax -MOSCOW. April 16, 2013) The closed part of the list of U.S. citizens prohibited to visit Russia is longer than the open part, a source at the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Tuesday. “Concerning the Russian list, its closed part carries more names than the open one,” he said. The source said he did not know how many […]

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Duma to Consider Lifting Ban on Child Adoptions

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Russian Orphans with Mr. and Mrs. Dmitry Medvedev

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – April 17, 2013) The State Duma was scheduled on Wednesday to discuss a bill to lift the ban on U.S. parents adopting Russian children, even as Russian investigators accused another U.S. couple of failing to protect their child. The bill’s authors, Just Russia Deputies Dmitry Gudkov, Ilya Ponomaryov and Valery Zubov, said the ban needed […]

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Training a post-Cold War generation of security experts – collaboratively

Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Stylized Russian and U.S. Flags with Number 200, 1807-2007

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Elena Bobrova, RBTH – April 16, 2013) Russian students from a prestigious world politics program get diverse American perspectives first-hand. A more intense spotlight shines on educational cooperation as Russia and the United States seek fresh perspectives on bilateral relations despite recent shadows cast on the reset. The Center for International and Security […]

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Putin and Obama Plan 2 Meetings to Tackle Tensions

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – April 16, 2013) Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will meet twice in the upcoming months for talks aimed at easing tensions amid differences over human rights and other issues. The two presidents have agreed to hold talks on the sidelines of a Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland in June and to meet […]

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Obama Sends Putin a Letter to Ease Tensions

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – April 16, 2013) The Kremlin said the United States has sent Russia a “positive signal” by dispatching a high-profile delegation to Moscow headed by U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon, who delivered a letter Monday with “concrete measures” on missile defense, nuclear arms reduction and trade. The meeting occurred amid ongoing strains […]

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U.S. Missile Shield No Threat to Russia – Deputy PM

Nuclear, Missile Defense, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Missile Defense Control Room file photo

(RIA Novosti -LONDON, April 16, 2013) Russia’s strategic forces are capable of penetrating the US missile shield and it poses no military threat to the country, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday. “We have solved the issue of penetrating the missile shield. We regret that the United States waste their money on missile defense and compel us […]

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Blacklists Hang Over Future of U.S.-Russia Ties

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of U.S. Capitol Dome

(RIA Novosti – Carl Schreck – WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013) ­ The United States and Russia struck a conciliatory chord Monday following tit-for-tat blacklists of alleged human rights violators, but the contentious US legislation that sparked the diplomatic dust-up appears set to become a permanent fixture in ties between Washington and Moscow. “There is no sunset clause on the Magnitsky […]

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Russians in America: Chasing a dream or unemployment?

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
U.S. Map

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Vladimir Chukov, Stepan Serdyukov, Anna Laletina, special to RBTH – April 15, 2013) RBTH continues its coverage of the U.S. Work & Travel program by asking three former participants about their experiences. The Summer Work and Travel program, created as a public diplomacy tool in 1963, allows foreign university students to work and […]

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Putin Offers to Assist in Boston Bombing Probe

Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – April 16, 2013) President Vladimir Putin has expressed his sympathy and offered to assist in a U.S. investigation into twin bomb blasts that killed three people and injured more than 140 others during a marathon in Boston. A senior Russian lawmaker said the tragedy should remind countries to work together rather than create divisive blacklists, […]

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Putin Is ‘Master of Compromise,’ Spokesman Says

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Kremlin and Moscow Environs Aerial View

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – April 15, 2013) Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Sunday described Vladimir Putin as a “fierce” defender of Russia’s national interests but also a “master of compromise” while commenting on everything from the opposition movement to escalating tensions with the U.S. Peskov’s comments, made on the state-owned Rossia 1 television channel on Sunday night, come amid […]

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Moscow Says It Is Ready to Pick Up Positive Signals from US

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, April 15, 2013) ­ President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov accused the US administration on Monday of demonstrating “conflicting behavior,” but said Moscow was ready to develop and deepen its ties with the US. The official’s comments were made during a visit by US national security advisor Tom Donilon to Moscow. “On the one […]

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Interview: ‘Democratic Development Survives Bad Laws And Repression’

Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – April 12, 2013) The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private foundation based in Washington, D.C., that provides grants and other support to organizations around the world that promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The NED’s senior director for Europe, Rodger Potocki, recently visited RFE/RL’s broadcast center in Prague and spoke with […]

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Battle of Lists ‘Caricature’ of the Cold War, Lukyanov Says

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, April 14, 2013 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/04/window-on-eurasia-battle-of-lists.html) The publication of the Magnitsky List and the Russian response have prompted widespread speculation not only about the secret and supposedly much larger and possibly expandable lists attached to each but about the meaning of this exchange for the future of Russian-American relations. In an article entitled […]

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Most officials on U.S.’ Magnitsky list no longer serving in previous capacity

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(Interfax – MOSCOW. April 12, 2013) Most of the Russian officials added on Friday to the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals List (OFAC’s SDN list) under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 are no longer working in the positions they occupied when an investigation against Hermitage Capital lawyer […]

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Washington to Release Magnitsky Blacklist Today

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – April 12, 2013) The Kremlin was bracing for the release late Friday of a U.S. blacklist of more than 100 Russians that could include Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. At the same time, the authorities were preparing to release their own blacklist with an equal number of U.S. citizens. Washington […]

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Obama Calls for More Nuclear Weapons Funding, Cuts for Nonproliferation

Nuclear, Missile Defense, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Stealth Bomber in Flight

(RIA Novosti – WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013) ­ U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed boosting funding for the Energy Department to modernize the nation’s existing nuclear weapons in what analysts say is part of a bargain he struck with Republican lawmakers to secure their support for the New START deal with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles. In his federal […]

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Lavrov: Magnitsky act ‘Russophobia’ product

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(Interfax – MOSCOW, April 11, 2013) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has branded the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a manifestation of “the Russophobia that is traditionally present” in U.S. Congress. One of the architects of the Magnitsky act was Hermitage Capital investment fund chief executive William Browder, who “illegally hoarded a large fortune in the […]

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Lavrov: no obstacle to Russia, U.S. scrapping entry visas

Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Sergei Lavrov file photo

(Interfax – MOSCOW, April 11, 2013) Moscow can see no obstacle to Russia and the United States abolishing the entry visa regime in travel between them, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “As far back as two years ago, (Russian President) Vladimir Putin proposed that we do not limit ourselves to loosening the visa regime but that we move […]

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‘Quality Issues’ Led to Work-and-Travel Visa Crunch

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Artist's Rendition of U.S. Embassy, Moscow, with the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Background

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – April 11, 2013) Concerns about participants’ safety, health and well-being are behind record visa refusal rates for Russian university students applying to work and travel in the United States this summer, a senior State Department official told an audience at the American Center in Moscow on Wednesday. Tara Sonenshine, the State Department’s […]

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Washington questions Moscow about WTO conflicts

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
WTO Logo

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Elena Shipilova, RBTH – April 11, 2013) America seeks an explanation of why Russia’s foreign trade regulations clash with WTO rules. Since 2012, Russia has been operating under both the WTO and the Customs Union. The U.S. is now seeking official clarification on how the two regimes work with each other. Russian officials […]

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Russians less favorable to U.S., EU, Ukraine, Belarus, more to Georgia – poll

Belarus, Europe, EU, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Map of Russia

(Interfax – MOSCOW, April 9, 2013) A recent poll has shown that Russian citizens had less favorable opinions towards the United States and European Union as well as to Ukraine and Belarus. Currently, 48% of Russians give generally positive comments about the United States, against 53% in January. Thus, the share of those opposed to the United States grew from […]

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Russia, US: Not the time to be throwing stones

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, North Korea, Syria, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Yevgeny Shestakov, special to RBTH – April 9, 2013) Yevgeny Shestakov is international politics editor at Rossiyskaya Gazeta. International politics analyst Yevgeny Shestakov considers Russia and the U.S. should not resolve their differences via international conflicts like the Syria crisis. Events in civil war-torn Syria have demonstrated the lamentable inability of Russia and […]

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Obama Opens Window for Russians to Contest Magnitsky Sanctions

Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Memorial Flowers and Photo of Sergei Magnitsky

(RIA Novosti – Carl Schreck – WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013) ­ Russian officials who are slapped with Magnitsky Act sanctions this week may have seen their dim prospects for recourse in US courts brighten thanks to US President Barack Obama. In what the White House called a “routine delegation” of responsibilities, Obama on Friday formally tasked the US Treasury and […]

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U.S. Embassy Slams Door on Student Workers

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Artist's Rendition of U.S. Embassy, Moscow, with the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Background

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – April 5, 2013) Without warning or explanation, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has rejected an unprecedented percentage of Russian university students applying for visas to take part in the State Department’s popular Summer Work and Travel program this year, dashing hopes and placing the program’s future in doubt. About 80-90 percent of […]

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Putin, Obama to Meet in June – Kremlin

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, April 4, 2013) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama will hold full-fledged talks on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland in June, a Putin aide said on Thursday. The possibility of “contacts in connection with Obama’s participation in a G20 summit” is also under consideration, presidential aide Yury Ushakov […]

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US Ambassador to Moscow McFaul: Learning to be Less Clear

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti, MOSCOW, March 28, 2013) ­ US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul’s official residence in Moscow is Spaso House, a Neoclassical Revival mansion that served as the setting for a ball hosted by the devil in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, “Master and Margarita.” An apt home, some might say, for a man who has been demonized by state-run […]

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Russia ready for dialogue with U.S. on equality, non-interference terms – Foreign Ministry

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) – Moscow welcomes the U.S. wish to return the dialogue with Russia into a constructive mode, which Washington has been displaying lately, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported after the Monday meeting of its board. “We feel positive about the wish to return the dialogue into a constructive mode that Washington has been displaying lately. We are […]

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EVENT: Former Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor S. Ivanov Speaks on U.S.-Russian Relations; April 4, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

Europe, EU, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of George Washington Bust at George Washington University

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 From: IERES <ieresgwu@gwu.edu> Subject: Invitation-Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor S. Ivanov Speaks on U.S.-Russian Relations IERES – The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies The Changing System of International Relations and Its Impact on U.S.-Russian Relations Part of IERES’s Eurasian Leadership Series with Igor S. Ivanov Former Minister of […]

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EVENT: “The Decline of Russian-American Relations: Does the Reset Begin at Home?”- Tuesday, April 9th, 2013, in New York City

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 Subject: “The Decline of Russian-American Relations: Does the Reset Begin at Home?”- Tuesday April 9th From: Fiona Neale-May <fiona.nealemay@nyu.edu> New York University will host “The Decline of Russian-American Relations: Does the Reset Begin at Home?” a panel discussion featuring former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Bill Bradley and Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the […]

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Alexander Vershbow: Our primary concern is that Assad regime could use chemicals weapons

Middle East, North Africa, Syria, WMD Proliferation
File Photo of Bashar al-Assad and Sergei Lavrov

(Interfax – March 29, 2013) Interview Deputy NATO Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, who is visiting Moscow for an informal conference of former U.S. ambassadors to Russia and Russian ambassador to the United States, has given an interview to Interfax in which he speaks about NATO-Russia cooperation, as well as pressing issues on the international agenda, such as the missile defense […]

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Russian, US defence chiefs discuss need for ‘resumption of dialogue’ by phone

Military, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Sergei Shoigu file photo

(Interfax – Moscow, March 25, 2013) Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel have held a telephone conversation on issues of global and regional security, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoliy Antonov has told journalists on Monday (25 March). “Literally an hour ago, at the initiative of the Russian side, a telephone conversation took place between […]

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After Kremlin Talks, China’s Leader Takes Dig at U.S.

China, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
China Map

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexander Bratersky and Jonathan Earle – March 25, 2013) In a veiled criticism of the U.S., new Chinese President Xi Jinping has denounced foreign governments that meddle in the domestic affairs of other countries, adopting rhetoric favored by President Vladimir Putin as he wrapped up his first foreign trip in Moscow. Xi, who underscored China’s […]

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AmCham’s Andrew Somers to Step Aside

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of American Chamber of Commerce in Russia Event

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – March 22, 2013) Andrew Somers will step aside after 12 years as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia. Somers has informed the business association’s board that this will be his last year at its helm, AmCham said Friday. “He will move to the private sector and will begin an association in this […]

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USA did not learn its lesson in Iraq, continues policy in Syria – top Russian MP

Middle East, North Africa, Syria, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Syria Map

(Interfax – Moscow, March 20, 2013) The chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Aleksey Pushkov, has said that the USA, which suffered a serious political defeat as a result of the war in Iraq initiated by it 10 years ago, was still carrying on a similar policy towards other Middle East countries, in particular Syria. “The Americans’ […]

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Russian Envoy: US, EU Monopoly in Africa Coming to an End

Africa, Europe, EU, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Africa Satellite Image Map

(RIA Novosti – March 19, 2013) The Russian president’s special envoy for cooperation with African countries, Mikhail Margelov, has said that the US, EU monopoly in the African states was coming to an end as “the new players, that is BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), have stepped in”, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported him as saying on […]

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Most of Russian Cabinet Against US Adoption Ban – Deputy PM

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Russian Orphans with Mr. and Mrs. Dmitry Medvedev

MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti) ­ The majority of Russian ministers are against a recently approved ban on US nationals adopting Russian children, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Wednesday. “A lot of people in the Cabinet, the majority, were against the legislation, at least in the form it was passed,” Dvorkovich said at a meeting with students, the Prime […]

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US missile defence rethink removes main irritant for Moscow – Russian general

Nuclear, Missile Defense
Missile Defense Control Room file photo

(Interfax – Moscow, March 19, 2013) The US decision not to go ahead with the fourth stage of development of the European missile defence system removes an important point of disagreement between the Russian Federation and the USA in their negotiations on this issue, former Chief of the Main Staff of the Strategic Missile Troops Col-Gen Viktor Yesin believes. “The […]

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Kremlin’s Child Advocate ‘Upset’ As US Parents Cleared

Foreign Policy, Security, Visas
Russian Foreign Ministry Building Tower file photo

MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti) ­ Russia’s child rights ombudsman and Foreign Ministry criticized on Tuesday the decision by Texas prosecutors not to charge the adoptive parents of a Russian toddler who died suddenly in January. “The Texas prosecutors’ position in the case of Maxim Kuzmin is upsetting, because they refused to scrutinize the circumstances of his death,” ombudsman Pavel […]

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Moscow to Welcome U.S. Decision not to Deploy 4th Stage of Missile Shield in Europe – Expert

Europe, EU, NATO, Nuclear, Missile Defense, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Patriot Missile Launch file photo

(Interfax – Moscow, March 18, 2013) Washington’s decision not to deploy the last elements of its missile shield in Europe should be welcomed in Russia, Chairman of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Fyodor Lukyanov, said. “The Russian side should in general welcome this step, whatever stands behind it. At the same time, I think and judging by the reaction […]

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Changes in U.S. plans for Europe-based missile defense system fail to allay Moscow’s concerns – Russia’s Defense Ministry

NATO
Missile Defense Control Room file photo

(Interfax – March 19, 2013) A statement by U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel who effectively announced the cancellation of the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense shield should be clarified in great detail, Sergei Koshelev, director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s department for international military cooperation, told journalists at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Monday evening. “Negotiations […]

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