Not only NPR, the State Department will as well. They must be choking.
A geostrategy for Eurasia by Zbigniew Brzezinski (America should break up Russia - strengthen China)
They want to break up Russia so the "West" (Euro-American-Germany) to be able to have access and outright ownership of Russia's vast natural resources without the Kremlin's interference and they want to strengthen and keep China whole so that the globalist economy can have access to stable Chinese manufacturing structure and emerging Chinese market of one billion plus souls (or so they hope).
That is why Bush is doing the bear baiting and ignoring the Jewish death tolls in the Baltics by avoiding the subject of their Nazi collaborationist past which taints Baltic claims of being victims somewhat. They were only enthusiastic at killing Jews for the Nazis.
PS: No statue of Stalin has gone up in Russia - it is a distorted story by neocon influenced press - it is a statue of all three allied leaders - Stalin - Roosevelt and Churchill and it was rejected - it will end up at some park in Volvograd.
We are watching a great manipulation of the news for foreign policy purposes - again.
PPS: Regarding PUTIN TO USA: MIND YOUR OWN DEMOCRACY Putin has read the Federalist Papers!! And taken the advice of George Washington to heart!