Former Bush administration officials are strongly displeased about Obama’s conduct during his recent visit to Moscow. “It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended,” a US official said. The US President will unlikely react to these attacks, though he will have to defend his position, demonstrating that he protects national interests

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley rejected Friday (July 11) the connection between the deployment of the elements of the missile defense system in Europe and the signing of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The Polish press has predicted before that the USA would not be building missile bases. It was particularly said that America would not have the money for it, and that Obama would simply turn the project down

Barack Obama stated during his visit to Moscow that lifting the notorious Jackson-Vanik amendment would be one of the biggest priorities of his administration. The USA approved the amendment in 1974 to cut its trade with the USSR over the decision of the Soviet government to restrict the emigration of Jews from the USSR. The amendment continues to exist many years after the collapse of the USSR. Has Obama really pushed the reset button?

Obama’s plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 Airport. There was no guard of honor to greet Obama in Moscow because the US president arrived for a work, not for a state visit. It took the procession of the US president only 15 minutes to get from the airport to the Kremlin. The cars were traveling at the speed of 130 km/h. The traffic on Moscow’s Leninsky Prospekt was entirely blocked for that time. On Tuesday, Barack Obama is to meet former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. The meeting will last for only 15 minutes.

No one expected in 1968 that the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union would improve. Nixon visited the USSR, which led to a number of fundamental agreements. The period before the end of the 1970s was the best time in the relations between the two superpowers. One should not think that America wishes Russia well. It is the United States that impedes the disarmament process

Most likely, the US President will stay in Moscow at Ritz-Carlton Hotel. He can also choose from the luxury residence for guests in the Kremlin or Marriott Grand Hotel. If Obama chooses Ritz, he will be accommodated in a five-room Kremlin view luxury suite with huge panoramic windows. The bathroom in the suit is tiled with marble. The previous US presidents - Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - preferred to stay at Marriott Grand Hotel during their visits to Moscow

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty will be the most important issues that are going to be discussed during Barack Obama’s visit to Moscow. Even if the missile defense system were installed in Poland and the Czech Republic, it would not be a catastrophe. The USA wanted to deploy only ten interceptor missiles there. How could they be dangerous to Russia’s strategic power?

US President Barack Obama is coming to Moscow on July 6-8. The world expects that Obama and Medvedev will achieve significant progress in signing the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Russia is not going to take the missile defense issue off the table because the solution of this problem is closely connected with the national security of the country

The Conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) opened in Austria. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged the West to accept the suggestion from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the new European Security Treaty which would include the principles of disarmament and regulation of conflicts

North Korea, which threatens to unleash the war against the United States and its allies, probably prepares several new nuclear explosions. Two or three nuclear objects may appear in the north-west of North Korea, where the previous nuclear test was carried out