01/07/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"The question of human rights and political freedoms are not internal affairs."
"They are definitely looking for honesty and they are looking for Western democracies to abide by the principles that you preach."
"Let me be perfectly clear. Vladimir Putin's Russia has made this a zero-sum game. Where democracies prosper in its neighborhood, it loses."
"If we just ignore this and move on, what kind of signal are we sending?"