On my way back to Seattle from Sakhalin I read an article in the St. Petersburg Times entitled “The Country Russia Loves to Hate” by Vladimir Ryzhkov, a former Duma deputy and now a host of a political talk show on Ekho Moskvy radio. He cites a poll recently conducted by the Levada Center indicating [...]
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Are US–Russia Relationships Improving?
Posted in US-Russia Relations on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Meeting of Shared Interests
Posted in Business, Uncategorized, US-Russia Relations on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Spark and exploit” new opportunities was one of the messages at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Russian American Pacific Partnership (RAPP) held on Sakhalin Island this week. U.S. and Russian federal leaders listened to the issues in our trans-pacific relationship. Just less than one month away from the first meeting of the Presidential Bilateral [...]
FRAEC on Public Exposure
Posted in Business, US-Russia Relations on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a while since I have posted on the blog. It has been busy: we have had a delegation from Belarus in town, a kick off of our 20th Anniversary and several members of our city partnerships traveled to Russia. I also had the opportunity to be on a live show called Public [...]
A Soft Start Before the Real Work Begins
Posted in Business, US-Russia Relations on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Much has been written in the press about the Obama-Medvedev summit this week in Moscow. By now people are analyzing the results, whether or not much was accomplished and whether the Russian people really care about Obama’s visit to Russia. It is noteworthy that this is the first summit in 7 years and that there [...]
“Resetting the Relationship”
Posted in US-Russia Relations on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There has been much written lately about “resetting” our relationship with Russia including commentary that has been humorous, supportive and at times, skeptical, but most importantly it has brought attention back to why our relationship matters. Ambassador William Burns recently spoke at the Russian World Forum about just this issue. We have worked with Ambassador [...]
