The Kremlin Green Room
FOX News and a gaggle of Russian press invited to the Kremlin today to cover an informal discussion between former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Medvedev.
But walking into the Kremlin meeting room, the so called Green Room (because … Guess what color it is)? The meeting was much more than two, but almost 20.
Among them former Secretary of State Schultz, the U.S. Ambassador, a former American Finance Minister. And on the Russian side with Medvedev their Foreign Minister Lavrov and military officials.
They are informally discussing everything from Afghanistan to Missile defense to the Start 1 nuclear arms control treaty between America and Russia due to expire this year.
(We still have 3000 nuclear warheads respectively that can in seconds be pointed at places like Moscow and St. Peterrsburg and New York and Washington).
Nothing official in this unofficial setting. The usual “we had positive discussions”.
But interesting on the sidelines the Russian reporter who when I asked are things changing in Russia, any more press freedoms? quickly replied “not a bit, still none”.
And what’s more is this “tandem thing”. Russian reporters are ordered to give exactly the same coverage to President Medvedev as they are to Prime Minister Putin.
If one does something important TV must show the other doing something important and the same amount of minutes for both.
Its not a real President, but a tandem rule of the Country.
So behind the scene Kissinger met with Putin last night say sources.
Tandem diplomacy.
Tandem reporting.
Tandem problems to solve in rocky American Russian relations.
Dana Lewis serves as a foreign correspondent for FOX News Channel based in Moscow. Most recently, Lewis provided on-site coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. He also covered the hotel suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan and updates in the wake of the London terrorist attacks. 
So you’d say the restart button Hillary gave the Russians hasn’t been pushed yet? Good grief…you mean they have a fairness doctrine concerning equal time in reporting? Wait…I think I’ve heard about this somewhere…maybe a bill in our own Congress. Well, maybe we are leaning towards agreeing with more Russian concepts than before…then again you still get to report what you see..right Mr. Lewis? Even though nobody lets you see much. I think it’s all part of this transparent government thing. You ever get frustraited, Mr. Lewis? Silly question…you do a great job of reporting and we just read betweeen the lines. Sometimes what you don’t get information on says more than any information they would give you. And you can tell that to the Marines. Keep up the great work and thanks.