US Congress on alert in face of resurgent Russia
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US Congress on alert in face of resurgent Russia
REGARDLESS of who wins next week's razor's-edge elections, the US Congress is already spoiling for a confrontation with resurgent Russia.
Policymakers and analysts predict the next Congress, whether led by Republicans or Democrats, will be increasingly scathing of the Kremlin, ahead of US and Russian presidential polls in 2008.
``I believe the Congress will try to force the administration to change gears with regard to Russia,'' said Elizabeth Stewart, foreign policy advisor to Republican Senator Gordon Smith.
Criticisms spring from a growing list of US-Russia disagreements, spanning Iran's nuclear programme, geopolitical concerns like Georgia and post-Soviet states, through human rights and trade spats.
There is also disquiet over how the emerging energy superpower hands out oil and gas contracts, its arms sales to US foe Venezuela and the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Critics in both parties also grumble that President George W. Bush's vaunted friendship with President Vladimir Putin has failed to deliver.
Bush aides say some issues with Russia are best debated in private with Moscow _ like deals on securing nuclear materials left over from the Soviet Union and high-stakes diplomacy over Iran and North Korea. But Stewart said the administration would lose
a ``free pass'' on Russia issues whoever wins next Tuesday.
``I think the Hill has run out of patience with this so-called quiet diplomacy,'' she said at an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) forum grouping US and Russian scholars in Washington.
A Democrat policy aide said privately that a ``tougher'' congressional stance towards Russia was likely, noting frustrations of US investors in the country were filtering through to Congress.
Lawmakers might also break ranks as Bush slips into the lame duck status that bedevils all second-term presidents.
``Congress is a closer barometer of people's moods and changes, than particularly the president who does not have to run for reelection,'' said AEI scholar Leon Aron.
No one predicts a new Cold War, but rhetoric on Russia is hardening.
Republican Senator John McCain said on the campaign trail last week: ``every indication is that Putin has gone the way of autocracy and is nostalgic for the days of the Russian empire.''
Democrat Senator Bill Nelson and Republican Norm Coleman will try to force into law a bid to stop the United States striking deals on nuclear cooperation with Russia if it continues to assist Iran on nuclear issues.
In July, four Democratic senators including potential 2008 candidate Joseph Biden, warned Bush not to mince words with Putin.
``If Russia's leaders want their country to assume its rightful place in the world, they must change course,'' they wrote.
Democrat Senator Evan Bayh and Republican veteran Senator Orrin Hatch in May branded Russia an intellectual property ``pirate'' unfit for the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
A deal currently being thrashed out between US and Russian negotiators on Russia's WTO entry will need Senate approval, a process that will be a lightning rod for anger against Moscow.
Congressional suspicion of Russia is perhaps most acute over Iran, stoked by Moscow's construction of the Bushehr nuclear plant and stalling on nuclear sanctions on Tehran.
The ``colour'' revolutions in ex-Soviet states, for example Ukraine, won strong support in Congress, and Russian anger was rejected.
Russia's diplomatic showdown with Georgia also raised hackles here and administration critics were dismayed the United States signed on to a UN Security Council resolution on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict _ seeing the move as a payoff for Russian support
on the North Korea nuclear crisis.
Post-Soviet Russia's decline led many in Congress to discount it as a global player. Now anxiety is growing over its rebound.
A Congressional Research Service report last month noted ``there now appears to be more discord than harmony in US-Russian relations.'' Though Congress can frustrate foreign policy towards Russia, it is up to Bush to set its course,
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