Is Vladimir Putin's Foreign Policy Unpopular? Not So Much

It shouldn't exactly come as a shock that I strongly disagree with David Kramer, the head of Freedom House, one of the highest-profile proponents of the Magnitsky bill, and a staunch advocate of "morality"  in foreign policy. Kramer recently contributed to a debate run by The American Interest, where he said the following: Furthermore, Graham assumes that Russian policy is driven by national interests when in reality it is more often—albeit not always—driven by the narrow and even personal interests of a ruling clique that is losing influence and is increasingly viewed as illegitimate by segments of Russian society.