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It is unlikely that negative perceptions of Islam in Russia will be reversed in the foreseeable future, since external factors outside Russia influence this attitude. Everyone is interested in stopping the rise of Islamophobia, not least the Muslim themselves, who should also be more cautious and circumspect when dealing with Russia.
In advance of 2008, if Mr Putin were looking to improve his legacy he might consider three moves. He should release Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed oligarch, bury Lenin and invite the Pope. Each move would erase a dark shadow of Russia’s history.
(Commentary by Rose Gottemoeller, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center)
Two images caught my eye in the media coverage of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in
The photo stuck with me though, for the matching blue that Bush and Putin were issued. We might not like each other, but the rest of the world still pairs us together. We are still expected to work on problems, find solutions, and hammer out compromises when they are needed. That effect was clear this weekend, when the
Carnegie hosted a seminar on Russia's accession to the WTO, including a presentation by AUSTR Dorothy Dwoskin on the negotiation of the U.S.-Russia bilateral agreement. 
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The meetings between the presidents of Russia and the United States have long since ceased to hold any fateful significance, and that is good. What is bad is that they have become unproductive. The encounter between Putin and Bush in Hanoi has the potential to be an exception if a decision regarding Russia's accession to the WTO can be made there.
After nearly 13 years of tough negotiations, the United States and the Russian Federation have finally reached a bilateral agreement about Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization. It is the only piece of good news for a relationship that has steadily deteriorated to a point of acrimony and distrust not seen since Mr. Gorbachev came to power more than twenty years ago.
Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin were all smiles when they met Wednesday at a Moscow refueling stop during Bush's trip to Asia. But the truth is that the U.S.-Russian relationship has reached its lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, religion, in particular Islam, has come to play an important role in Russia’s regions. Two different processes characterize religion and society in Russia: on one level, there has been a desecularization of the elite, and on another, there have been significant changes within Russian Islam.
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