Improved the relation with the US

Description

Nineteen years after the end of the Cold War, the relations between White House and Kremlin is strategic partnership but tension.

Enablers

Economic ties: Two-way trade between Russia and the United States now exceeds $26 billion, and two-way investment is approaching $20 billion. Military ties: the physical security of nuclear materials and sensitive technologies has been increased by several partnership programs, such as nuclear weapon and Russian support for the US ‘war on terrorism’ in the wake of the September 11 attacks

Inhibitors

Different mind-set: the US has made democracy a goal of American foreign policy; Russia’s political system is becoming steadily more authoritarian. The US has worried that Russia has used energy exports as a policy weapon high global prices for oil, Russia's top export, it began fighting back, reheating Cold War-era anti-Western rhetoric

Timing

1985-1991 cold War 1992 Yeltsin visits the United States 1992 Russia attends the Washington Summit. 1994 First joint US-Russian Space Shuttle mission. 1996 Ratification of START 2 treaty. 1998 Launch of International Space Station. 2002 US president George W Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow and sign a treaty on strategic offensive reductions and declaration on a new strategic relationship. 2007 Russia offers The United States to put missile defences on Azerbaijan. 2009 Russia agrees to allow NATO supplies to pass through Russia on the route to Afghanistan.