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RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS are going through what is probably their worst phase in the last 70 years. Diplomatic contacts are at a bare minimum. Dialogue on education, science, culture, sports, and humanitarian cooperation has been almost entirely cut off by the American side. Trade and economic ties have been fatally disrupted by a wave of sanctions. The anti-Russian hysteria in the American media and political circles in effect recreates the atmosphere of the times of the struggle against the "red threat." At the same time, readers may recall that in the USSR and the US of the early 1950s, memories of the recent alliance in the fight against the Axis countries were still alive, and the negative attitude toward the Soviet Union in American society was based on an ideological (anti-communist) foundation and did not transform into the banal and primitive Russophobia that we are witnessing today. It does not seem possible to pull the bilateral dialogue out of the steep nosedive brought on by Washington. Under the current circumstances, further decline appears almost irreversible.
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189143
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A YEAR ago, the 46th US president stirred up diametrically opposed emotions and expectations in the unprecedentedly polarized and divided US. Supporters and fellow Democrats viewed the new president as an incredibly experienced leader who would consolidate the nation and return it to leading positions in the community of nations aligned with the values of the "collective West." Biden's critics and opponents who sympathized with Donald Trump spoke of the new president as an anachronism who could not make a decision on his own and was controlled by party functionaries. Opinion in the rest of the world was similarly divided. Today, however, we can say that, as usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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189176
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TWENTY-FIVE years after Russia joined the Council of Europe (CoE). Moscow's relations with this organization, which had long been in a serious crisis, came to an end. First, our country's participation in the key bodies of the CoE - the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) - was imperatively terminated. Then, according to a new, hastily implemented procedure, Russia was fully excluded from the Council, although by that time the Russian Foreign Ministry had already announced its decision to withdraw from the organization by the end of the year. The exclusion was done defiantly, even mockingly. The story of Russia's turbulent and often tense interaction with the CoE has reached its sad, albeit logical conclusion.
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