President Barack Obama has an important opportunity he should not pass up.
He is participating in the G20 Leader Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia starting today, and Syria is most likely to dominate the agenda. But he should not ignore Russia’s crackdown on human rights.
Fortunately, this is not a partisan issue. A group of prominent United States Senators – Democrat and Republican – have asked President Obama to speak out against Vladimir Putin’s repression of freedom of expression and assembly and other human rights.