“Dmitry Medvedev” on The Daily Caller

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall? (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons divided Republicans and Democrats on Friday as the Senate slogged through debate on a new arms control treaty with Russia. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is warning that his country will find it necessary to build up its nuclear forces, if the United State’s doesn’t ratify a new arms reduction treaty. (more)

Russia’s president devoted the largest part of his annual State of Russia speech to reversing Russia’s population decline. (more)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that a weapons treaty with Russia that has been stalled due to Republican objections must pass before the end of the year, and predicted the Senate will indeed ratify it. (more)

In a blow to President Barack Obama’s hopes of winning quick approval of a nuclear arms control pact with Russia, a key Republican senator said Tuesday that he does not think it should be considered this year. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia said Wednesday that dialogue remains the only option for ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as Pyongyang accused South Korea and the U.S. of blocking the stalled talks. (more)

Russia’s announcement that it will help Iran get nuclear fuel is raising questions about what President Obama calls the “better-than- ever” relationship between Russia and the U.S. after the two former Cold War adversaries recently signed a nuclear reduction treaty. (more)

KADANOK, Russia (AP) — Some of the devastating wildfires sweeping western Russia are out of control, Russia’s emergency chief said Tuesday, as fears grew there were not enough firefighters to battle them. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev. (more)

NOVOZAVIDOVO, Russia (AP) — People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The once smooth path for Senate ratification of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia is looking a little dicier. (more)

The Obama administration is getting kudos for its quick action in the Russian spy case. (more)

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Why does Russian president Dmitry Medvedev always wear ill-fitting suits? Are there no competent tailors in Moscow? Am I the only person who’s noticed? I feel like I’m takin’ crazy pills. – Gregbot (more)

(Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Iran was moving closer to having the potential to create nuclear weapons. (more)

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” said Captain Renault to Rick in Casablanca as a croupier hands him a pile of money. The police captain had the good sense to at least feign indignation when he found himself in an awkward situation involving illegal activity. Renault, of course, condoned the gambling by participating in it. (more)

(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday the U.S. arrests of suspects in an alleged Russian spy ring would not hurt improving relations with Washington, softening its tone after an initial angry response. (more)

The defendants are accused of being so-called “illegals”, working for the Russian foreign secret service under false identities to penetrate US government policy-making circles. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests. (more)

Today at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stopped by. To say security was tight here is putting it lightly. I had to go through a process much more stringent than any airport I’ve ever been to just to get in. There are snipers here. Not kidding. (more)