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Today, Secretary of State Colin Powell alights in Moscow on the sixth stop in his barnstorming tour of yet another of imperial America's new backyards. He meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin to try to nail down the details of a new agreement dramatically reducing the two countries' nuclear weapons stockpiles.
Both Putin and George Bush committed last month to sharply reducing their respective first strike nuclear armaments, and Powell, working toward that end, has met three times with Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov in the last week.
But while media coverage of Powell's trip will focus on the potentially momentous nuclear breakthrough, a whole host of other pieces of the relationship between Russia and the U.S. are largely operating under media radar. It is impossible to understand them without understanding what has happened to Russia -- a country still in many ways even......
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