Evaluating the Reset: Is It Time for a Pause?

Testimony by Stephen Sestanovich

July 7, 2011

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Stephen Sestanovich testifies before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee that, though the U.S. and Russia restored broadly cooperative ties after 2008, the relationship is marked by lingering frustration and even friction.

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