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12:21 PM, Mar 26, 2012 • By ROBERT ZARATECongressman Mike Turner, a Republican from Ohio, sent a letter to President Obama demanding an “urgent explanation of [his] comments to [Russian] President Medvedev in Seoul this morning,” only hours after a hot microphone caught Obama privately telling Medvedev this morning that he’ll have “more flexibility” after the November 2012 elections to deal with Russian objections to U.S.-NATO missile defense.
Read more... 8:34 AM, Mar 26, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLIf one needed a reminder of why President Obama must be defeated in November, he provided it today in Seoul, where the end of his private conversation with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room:
Read more... 8:01 AM, Mar 26, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Obama got caught in private conversation with a hot mic today in Seoul, South Korea, telling outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that Vladimir Putin should give him more "space" and that "[a]fter my election I have more flexibility."
Read more... 4:28 PM, Mar 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe Kremlin television network RT praised the supposed fairness of the Russian election after strongman Vladimir Putin won reelection in the rigged contest. RT's claim was that the election was the most transparent in history:
Read more... A depressing victory for Putin. Mar 19, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 26 • By CATHY YOUNG
In the end, the outcome of the Russian presidential election was as predictable as it was depressing. Vladimir Putin won, with an official tally of nearly 64 percent of the vote—more than enough to spare him the dreaded runoff—amid charges of widespread fraud at the ballot box. The question remains whether this is a lasting defeat for freedom in Russia or a last and ephemeral victory for Putinism.
Read more... 11:35 AM, Mar 9, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERCBS's Mark Knoller reports:
Pres. Obama phoning congratulations from AF-1 to Pres-elect Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Read more... 1:16 PM, Mar 5, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERIranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "congratulated" Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian people for the strongman's "decisive victory" Sunday night. The message was posted on the Iranian foreign ministry website (and translated using Google Translate).
Read more... Putin loses his grip.Jan 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 16 • By CATHY YOUNG
"We went to jail in one country and came out in another,” Russia’s most famous blogger, 35-year-old anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, said on December 21 after serving two weeks’ detention for alleged disorderly conduct during demonstrations against vote-rigging in the parliamentary elections of December 4.
Read more... 9:03 AM, Dec 14, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERNow is the time to undermine Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. With major protests going on in response to the recent fraudulent parliamentary elections, with Mikhail Prokhorov announcing that he is likely to challenge Putin for the presidency in the next election, and with major ferment in Russia, it is the best time to further undermine Putin’s control structure by holding human rights violators accountable. And there are several efforts underway to do just that in Congress.
Read more... Vladimir Putin, the once and future president of Russia.Oct 17, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 05 • By CATHY YOUNG
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