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MOSCOW, May 6. (RIA Novosti) - U.S. and Russian approaches to the development of democracy on post-Soviet territory may not coincide, but that does not mean they should argue, says Dimitri Simes, an American political expert and president of the Nixon Center, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, a popular daily. In his opinion, when the U.S. president arrives in Moscow to attend the celebrations marking the end of WWII, the U.S. side will display its "great desire to achieve mutual understanding on a number of issues." The U.S. expert singles out Russian-U.S. interaction on the post-Soviet territory as a...

It seems that I’ve made the enemies list over at the Nixon Center. It’s been two weeks since my 3-part rejoinder to Robert Leiken and Steven Brooke was published here at FrontPage: Showdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 1 Showdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 2 Showdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 3 Since that time, not a word has been uttered by the Nixon Center duo in response or rebuttal. I understand their dilemma: having previously accused me in their article, “A Response to Patrick Poole’s ‘Mainstreaming the Muslim Brotherhood’” of ignoring their arguments made in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs,...