{"id":8795,"date":"2009-07-08T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2009-07-08T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:56:49","slug":"did-obama-reset-relations-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/07\/08\/did-obama-reset-relations-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama Reset Relations with Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070809\/2009_07_08_kagarlitsky.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070809\/2009_07_08_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2009\/07\/07\/PH2009070701771.jpg\" alt=\"us-russia\" \/>President Obama concluded a three-day visit to Russia yesterday, during which he met with both President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. The high level summit was considered significant in improving US-Russia relations in the aftermath of last year&#8217;s Russian war in Georgia. Following from his April speech in Prague in which Obama expressed his \u201ccommitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,\u201d the American president pushed for nuclear arms reduction during the US-Russia summit. On Monday, Medvedev and Obama agreed to reduce their nuclear stockpiles by a quarter to a third, which in the context of previous agreements is modest. Also on the agenda were economic relations between the two countries. According to a recent World Economic Forum report, Russia\u2019s economy is one of the most closed economies in the world. But President Medvedev this week reiterated Russia&#8217;s bid to join the World Trade Organization. Russians however, are concerned about the &#8220;Buy American&#8221; clause in Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus package. Obama&#8217;s stated goal was to &#8220;push the reset button&#8221; on relations and it is arguable whether that indeed happened. U.S.\/Russia relations severely deteriorated under former President Bush, particularly over issues of NATO expansion into former Soviet territories, and cooperation in the &#8220;war on terror.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Boris Kagarlitsky, Director of the Institute for Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program President Obama concluded a three-day visit to Russia yesterday, during which he met with both President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. The high level summit was considered significant in improving US-Russia relations in the aftermath of last year&#8217;s Russian war in Georgia. Following from his April speech in Prague in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}