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...whatever Moscow tells them to do, while the memorial they are building appears to conflict with Kremlin interests. Poborchiy nicely captures this incongruity. At 51, he admires Putin, who may no longer officially run the Kremlin but is assumed to orchestrate the every move of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev. Indeed, Poborchiy seems self-consciously Putinesque, sporting a tracksuit with the Russian tricolor and leading a men's team of ice swimmers who converge on a lake for morning races every winter, when Murmansk descends into darkness for nearly two months. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...event attended by the major players. As this year's G-8 president, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has the honor of hosting Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso, Russia's President Dimitri Medvedev, U.K.'s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the U.S.'s President Barack Obama in L'Aquila, the town hit by a horrific earthquake in April. But the G-8 summit is not, and never has been, the place to draft details on major policy initiatives. Rather, it is an opportunity...
...Though indirect, this passage amounted to the most direct criticism Obama has offered in Moscow of his Russian hosts, President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who have consolidated both power and control over the press in recent years. As the U.S. State Department reported earlier this year, the Russian government has "restricted media freedom through direct ownership of media outlets, pressuring the owners of major media outlets to abstain from critical coverage and harassing and intimidating journalists into practicing self-censorship." Though Medvedev, who was handpicked by Putin, won the election last year with a reported...
...Read "Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow...
...doubt, when Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev meet in Moscow July 6-8, the two leaders will be testing the waters of a delicate friendship. The focus of their talks will be the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, an epic disarmament agreement that was formed during the Cold War and expires Dec. 5. If the treaty is renewed, Obama gets closer to reaching his goal of having a world without nuclear weapons. Russia is ready to make major reductions to its nuclear stockpile, but only if the U.S. gives up its plans for a missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe...