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The first meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral...
and then a session on fighting stereotypes in our respective countries. For the next session that we will have sometime in the spring in Russia, the subject will be prison reform and migration. So those two topics we didn’t get to today.RFE/RL: Were representatives from the global anticorruption group Transparency International (TI) at today’s meeting?
McFaul: They were. Both the American representative from Transparency International -- in fact, I think one of the founders, if not the founder -- and the head of the Transparency International office in Russia were also here.
RFE/RL: TI has rated Russia the most corrupt of the world’s 20 leading industrialized nations. Did their representatives voice any criticism or skepticism about Russia’s commitment to fighting corruption?
McFaul: Uh, yeah. (Laughs). I mean, I don’t want to read out the tit-tat of the meeting because I would want you to talk to them and have them
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