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Judge Tipton made the decision early this morning Central European Time and it will be valid indefinitely, the New York Post reported.

Biden and his foreign policy team are known quantities in Moscow, and their calls to be tougher on Russia are taken seriously there. In any case, the Kremlin sees an anti-Russian tinge to almost all the key points of the new US administration's agenda.

When Biden pledges to restore ties with Europe, the Kremlin assumes this will be done by othering Russia.

The Biden administration says it's ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, in a sharp repudiation of former President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" that sought to isolate the Islamic Republic.

Expert Merve Tahiroglu joins The Greek Current to discuss how President Biden's pledge to put democracy and human rights at the center of American foreign policy is facing an early test from an increasingly authoritarian Turkey, and explore how the Biden administration has an immediate opportunity to make good on this pledge.

A bipartisan majority of the US Senate on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden's administration to push Turkey to do more to protect human rights.

Fifty-four of the 100 senators signed the letter, which accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of marginalizing domestic opposition, silencing critical media, jailing journalists and purging independent judges.

William Antholis joins The Greek Current podcast to explore the lessons the US can take from Greece's experience with populism, the US-China relationship and China's foothold in the Mediterranean with its investment in the port of Piraeus, and Biden's foreign policy architecture.

Biden called on Moscow to release dissident Alexei Navalny

The Citizens' Movement for an Open Society and E-Kyklos will be hosting an online debate on Wednesday night titled "The Challenge for American 'Hegemony' after the Election of Biden." 

President Biden on Tuesday signed three executive orders on immigration, including one to create a task force to reunify migrants separated under the Trump administration -- part of a sweeping push by Biden to roll back his predecessor's immigration policies.

She specified that the two leaders talked on the phone last week.
She added that Biden "did not refrain from expressing concern" over Russia's actions, Reuters reports.