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...Still, during his visit to Moscow Obama reiterated that "America supports now the restoration of the democratically elected President of Honduras." He added, "We do so not because we agree with" Zelaya's often anti-U.S. stances, but "because we respect the universal principle that people should choose their own leaders, whether they are leaders we agree with or not." Micheletti's Foreign Minister, Enrique Ortez, shot back, saying "I respect that little black guy, but he doesn't know where Tegucigalpa is." It appears, however, that Obama may well know enough to get Zelaya back to that capital...
...address to graduating students at Moscow's New Economic School, Obama described the "universal values" not as an ideal form of government but as a way of correcting inevitably imperfect governments. He spoke mainly of the American example - how freedom of speech allows minorities to petition for equal rights, how competitive elections allow citizens to hold their leaders accountable and how a free media expose corporate and government corruption. Then he made the topic personal. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...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...
...criticism was so carefully cast, however, that it is unlikely to disrupt the tone of close cooperation that has defined Obama's first visit to Moscow as President. Even in his speech on July 7, Obama offered his criticisms less as an attack than as a commentary on historical patterns that he argued are pushing toward greater transparency and citizen empowerment. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...Read "Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow...