May Day, May Day: The Strains in US-Russian Relations

Miriam Elder of Global Post notes the expulsion of two Russian diplomats by NATO on spying charges and Moscow's treaties with separatist regions to consider the consequences for relations between Moscow and Washington:

Russia and the West have a very bad day

MOSCOW — It was meant to be a day of fresh starts, as officials from Russia and NATO sat down for their first formal talks since breaking off relations last summer in the midst of the Georgia war.

Instead, NATO expelled two top Russian diplomats after accusing them of spying and Russia signed a treaty strengthening its ties with the separatist regions at the center of the controversial war. Are Russia’s relations with the West doomed to fail?

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