The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are meant to be one of Putin’s crowning achievements, but with corruption and horrible discrimination and violence against gays on the rise, Garry Kasparov calls for a boycott by corporate sponsors and world leaders. But let the athletes still play and Putin be embarrassed by the publicity.
There was no shortage of good reasons for President Obama to cancel his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but most of the attention went to Russia granting asylum to the American fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden a few days earlier.