... eight weeks. By flexing its muscles as a major food exporter Brazil is helping paint the target for Washington to impose the sanctions the Brookings experts have predicted in an article that assumes U.S. hegemony in Europe and the Americas. Then too, Russia’s recent award of a residence permit to NSA contractor and celebrated whistle blower Edward Snowden provides the Obama White House with additional impetus to play more sanctions cards. World of currency warcraft. BRICS tired of playing the quantitative easing game After it went off the gold standard and effecitvely decapitalized during the Cold ...
... defense, Syria, arms control, on one hand, and a general anti-Russian attitude in a certain part of the U.S. political elite (represented primarily in the Congress) on the other hand, prevent the countries from developing a new agenda.
The fact that Russia granted asylum to Snowden (which Sergei Lavrov called “an anomaly, an episode”) has proved to be a boiling point that escalated the routine of previous differences to the stage of crisis. Under such conditions, the meeting of the two heads of state could hardly ...
... interdependency in significant processes and has seen non-state actors take on an unprecedentedly high-profile as well as enormous potential and mobility. The security services did not play a prominent role in the current issue within the framework of the Russia-U.S. relationship. Snowden was not recruited by anyone; he acted of his own free will, at his own risk and peril. Russia’s security and intelligence services had no interest in the former CIA contractor per se. This is a rhetorical question as to whether the decision ...
... servers. A Relationship For The Future In A Dangerous World Secretary of State Kerry, who has compared bumps in relations with Russia to “collisions in a hockey game,” did not use a metaphor to assuage the concerns of the press corps at Itamaraty.... ... United States other nations. On balance, his preference for “quiet diplomacy” put the data collection and Edward Snowden into the context of a “side issue.” As a tool of diplomacy it is as appropriate as Foreign Minister Patriota’s ...
... in the operation, suddenly became Snowden's temporary home.
No one should have expected Moscow to simply hand over the American fugitive to U.S. officials: Russia, after all, is not a U.S. ally. One can easily imagine Putin asking whether, if a "Russian Snowden" turned up at JFK, he or she would be immediately extradited to Moscow -- or awarded some freedom prize instead. A rhetorical question. Scores of Russian citizens who have fallen afoul of the Kremlin populate the United States (and the United ...
... politicians as well as ultra-conservatives and libertarians such as Sen. Rand Paul, who believe the government should stay out of people’s lives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reaction added an interesting twist to the story. He said that Russia would not extradite Snowden to the United States, which was to be expected, but his words did not betray any sympathy for the fugitive American. As a former intelligence officer himself, Putin could hardly be expected to feel sympathy for someone who violates his oath and ...
