Dimitri Simes
Dimitri Simes
Dimitri Konstantinovich Simesis a foreign policy analyst and author who serves as president of The Center for the National Interestand publisher of the foreign policy journal The National Interest. Simes served as an informal policy adviser to Richard Nixon, who appointed him to lead the center in 1994...
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russia expectations troubled-relationship
We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.
confused simple simple-living
Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.
dialogue russian seems side sure tough wants
It seems to me that the administration wants to make sure that they have a constructive dialogue with Moscow. They want to be sure that they are on the right side of a new tough Russian president.