Russia - United States Policy Toward Russia: a Dossier
"We'll continue to advance our relationship with Russia, which is essential to making progress on a host of challenges -- from enforcing strong sanctions on Iran to preventing nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists. And this treaty will enhance our leadership to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and seek the peace of a world without them." President Obama – 12/22/10
"We obviously still have some differences and we’re clear about our differences as well. At the OSCE summit we had a significant difference over the question of Georgia and other unresolved conflicts, but we are expressing them frankly, and believe that in the long run the U.S. and Russia and Russia and Europe have so many common interests that we are and should be partners." (Briefing by Assistant Secretary Gordon, 12/07/10
Major US Government Statements
A select list of major statements with policy value.
Latest US Government Statements
The most recent statements in reverse chronological order.
THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN RUSSIA: U.S. POLICY OPTIONS. Source: U.S. Senate, Foreign Relations Committee, Dec. 14, 2011.
Time to Pause the Reset? Defending U.S. Interests in the Face of Russian Aggression
Full Committee
Testimony:
- Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
- The Honorable Howard L. Berman,
- Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D.,
- Mr. Ariel Cohen,
- The Honorable Steve Sestanovich
Source: U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, July 7, 2011.
04/29/10 THE HISTORICAL AND MODERN CONTEXT FOR U.S.- RUSSIAN ARMS CONTROL. Source: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong, And why it matters today in a new age of revolution. Foreign Policy, Summer 2011, var. pages. "Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system's problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon." READ MOREObama's Russia 'Reset' Another Lost Opportunity? Stephen F. Cohen, The Nation, June 20, 2011, var, pages. "The author discusses the political challenges of putting Obama's Russia 'reset' into practice. An enduring existential reality has been lost in Washington's post–cold war illusions and the fog of subsequent US wars: the road to American national security still runs through Moscow." READ MORE
