So I think NGOs and the Soros gang need to step up much more comprehensibly in a full-bore, comprehensive agenda on Russia-US relations, not just Uzbek-US relations.  More direct and international focus and coalition building is needed on the ILO. But since they tend to always fall back to doing American things more than any other, here's what they simply must do: They need to call on Obama not to go to the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg coming up — and there is reason to do this because Putin dissed Obama by not coming to the US to the G8 meeting last year, but sending Medvedev instead.

It's a no-brainer, easy to do, costs nothing, and is an awareness campaign. Mr. President, don't go to Pitir because the human rights violations for which Russia is responsible abroad and at home are so great, that you should not lend them your luster as leader of the free world.

For extra credit, overcome the usual reluctance to rain on the sports parade and call to boycott the Sochi Olympics — or call on Obama not to lend his presence to that jamboree, either. He need not go. He can send Kerry. This is how you build the Wall of Shame around Russia that needs to be built.

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This was my recommendation re: Uzbekistan, and I made this larger point that a coalition on Russia's human rights violations in the world needs to be built.