Voice of America: Can Russia’s Putin make peace with Obama II?
The reset jet no longer flies to Moscow.
In March of 2009, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton, then a brand new secretary of state, jointly pushed a “reset” button, signaling an end to the acrimony of the George W. Bush years. In that same month, United Airlines inaugurated direct jet service between Washington and Moscow.
A few weeks ago, United quietly suspended the Washington-Moscow flight.
International air passenger traffic out of Moscow is up 19 percent this year. But traffic to Washington is soft.
President Putin may drum up a little business with his invitation last week to President Obama to visit Moscow in 2013.