Dmitry Medvedev hailed the continuously strengthening cooperation between Russia and the United States when meeting with the visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outside Moscow on October 13, 2009. Secretary Clinton said at the Moscow meeting that the United States is looking forward to expanding its strategic ties with Russia.

Russia’s Commander-in-Chief President Medvedev praised the move of Obama’s administration to cancel the plans for installing missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. Dmitriy Medvedev noted that the decision of the U.S. President was by all measures “courageous.”

During his mid-September visit to Yaroslavl, Russia’s President Dmitriy Medvedev laid out his framework for the development of the country. The Russian President also talked about the paramount significance of open political debate.

Russian politicians offer comments on the first anniversary of military operations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, balancing the positive and the negative factors that have become more clearly discernible with the passage of time.

The 13th St. Petersburg Economic Forum lasted three days from June 4 to 6. After President Putin in 2007 recommended to Russian state officials not to go to a similar type of event in London, the St. Petersburg Forum became considered the largest business gathering in Russia.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation Anton Ivanov visited Washington, D.C., where he was hosted by judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Justice Ivanov attended a briefing with the U.S.-Russia Business Council.

The head of the Economic Safety Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Lieutenant General of the Russian Militia Yuri Shalakov talks about the effects of the financial crisis on economic crimes committed in the country.

I would hope that the coming of the new
President and the
new team will be marked by drawing a line
after a period of difficulties in our relations, especially
in recent times. Still, I have no particular expectations that this will happen without considerable efforts on both sides.  

Will our two leaders Dmitriy Medvedev and Barack Obama be able to establish a constructive dialogue between the countries and generate new forces to move bilateral relations forward? Questions like this one now worry not only scholars, analysts, and politicians, but also members of the business community.

Around five years ago I was interviewing one of the leaders of a business delegation from Russia at a Las Vegas tradeshow. I asked him whether any American businesspeople with Russian roots stopped by the booths of the Russian companies attending the fair and inquired about the opportunities for doing business.

In 2008, the annual budget of the city of Moscow, as executed, will stand at 50 to 55 billion dollars. There are only two cities in the world that have such budgets, New York and Tokyo. Our editor talks to the head of the Department for External Economic Affairs of the City of Moscow Georgiy Muradov.

Dennis Kucinich has been representing the 10th Congressional district of the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996. In 2004 and 2008, Congressman Kucinich was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

"Three years ago, the main threats to our country nested in the North Caucasus, where the criminal situation was catalyzing criminal activities in Russia as a whole. I mean not only the weapons, which the criminal militant groups needed badly, but also the economic sphere."

Millions on Earth watched in amazement as astronaut Stafford, opened the entry hatch of the Soyuz 19 spacecraft and shook hands with cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. For space travelers themselves, the flight turned out to be something more than successful scientific collaboration or means to a political rapprochement.

I recently got a call from one of my university classmates that I haven’t talked to for many years. I vaguely recalled that Andrei was still living and working in Yekaterinburg. I also remembered that he used to be a member of the famous Urals State University choir.

Brent Scowcroft is truly a legend of American foreign politics. National Security Advisor to two U.S. Presidents, Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr., military assistant to President Richard Nixon - this list of titles constitutes a very brief summary of General Scowcroft's career.

Yuriy Sidorenko serves as the Chairman of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation. A Distinguished Jurist of Russia, Mr. Sidorenko has been a member of Russia's Supreme Court since 1993. Justice Sidorenko worked in the Russian federal judiciary for 27 years.