MOSCOW: Russian-American relations are witnessing a renewed process of deterioration. Rot first set in during 1998 but stalled in 2000 because of the US presidential election. The Republicans were then presenting the Democrats as the party who "lost" Russia, so it was not to the Clinton/Gore Administration's advantage to second this by themselves feuding with the Putin administration. Now, with Republicans in the White House, the problems between the two countries are out in the open and multiplying.
MOSCOW: Russian-American relations are witnessing a renewed process of deterioration. Rot first set in during 1998 but stalled in 2000 because of the US presidential election. The Republicans were then presenting the Democrats as the party who "lost" Russia, so it was not to the Clinton/Gore Administration's advantage to second this by themselves feuding with the Putin administration. Now, with Republicans in the White House, the problems between the two countries are out in the open and multiplying.