Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do

    Council On Foreign Relations , March 2006

     Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, “U.S.-Russia relations are clearly headed in the wrong direction,” finds an Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Russia sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.

“The Bush administration has emphasized deal-making with Russia while remaining too quiet about Mr. Putin’s steady retreat from democracy. It should heed the Task Force report’s advice about a more balanced approach.”
—New York Times

“The reason our relationship with Russia matters is we want them working with us, not against us, to solve the world’s problems.”
—John Edwards with Jack Kemp on “Meet the Press”

“In terms of the Council on Foreign Relations report . . . we’ll study it carefully.”
—State Department

“In a grim assessment of the recent ‘downward trajectory’ under Putin, the Council on Foreign Relations reports that in Russia, democracy is in retreat, corruption on the rise, and the Kremlin an increasing obstacle to U.S. interests.”
—Washington Post

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