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Center for European Policy Analysis: Too Much US Reverence for the Kremlin's Smiling Hardmen
September 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Sept. 2, 2025:

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Too Much US Reverence for the Kremlin's Smiling Hardmen

Western negotiators need to remember who they're dealing with when they talk to the Kremlin's representatives.

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

Negotiations between the US and Russia have for years been characterized by a strange fascination . . .

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