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...Russia and Iran have struck a friendship of sorts. In 2000, then-President Putin abrogated the 1995 Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement and renewed arms dealings between Russia and Iran. Since then, Putin has signed a $1 billion arms deal with Iran and supported Iran’s nuclear ambitions. During Putin??s 2007 visit to Tehran, the first trip to the Iranian capital by a Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin’s visit in 1943, Putin and Iranian President Ahmadinejad discussed Iran’s nuclear energy program...
...president and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lead his United Russia party to resounding victory, strong-arming a putative republic of his own—manipulating the media and muzzling opposition parties. A man whose heart our own president once professed to “know,” Putin??s political ambition seems to know no inward bounds—or external constraint. Yet the Russian premier’s name hardly appears among the White House’s “axis of evil...
...short, the past 365 days have offered no shortage of evidence in the ongoing case against heavy-handedness, hegemonic or otherwise: The fledgling totalitarianism of Musharraf and Putin??s more robust brand seem to point in the same dreadful direction. Mistakes were indeed made at home and abroad—but progress may be on the way. Bush-era policies characterized by brash belligerence and simple overextension appear poised to be reversed, sophisticated, and otherwise repaired. Perhaps America, its lesson learned, can proceed along a middle path, spurning isolationism and unilateralism with one gesture, and march forward...
Speaking through a translator at the Institute of Politics, as well as at an earlier question-and-answer session with reporters, Gorbachev said repeatedly that Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia should be respected. The elections, which President Vladimir V. Putin??s United Russia party won with 64.1 percent of the vote, have drawn criticism from international observers...
...Cold War, Gorbachev remains a source of hope and inspiration. Unfortunately, the transition to democracy that he initiated in Russia is far from complete. The parliamentary elections that took place on Sunday, which cemented the power of the autocratic Russian President Vladimir Puttin, were nothing but a tragic comedy. Putin??s party won the election—a run up to the presidential election to succeed Putin in title, but likely not power, next March—in a landslide. United Russia gained a projected 315 seats in the 450-seat Duma. By contrast, the Communist Party, which...