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Obama to Take On Power Equation in Russia

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MOSCOW — The summit meeting here this week revolves around two men with some notable affinities. Presidents Obama and Dmitri A. Medvedev are relatively young leaders who represent a new generation of post-cold-war leadership, who once taught law and embrace the Internet. (Mr. Medvedev even has a video blog.)

One difference stands out, though: Mr. Obama is the undisputed head of his nation. Mr. Medvedev? Well, that is a bit more complicated, and is a significant problem for the Obama administration as it prepares for discussions on Monday.

Mr. Medvedev holds the highest office in Russia, so protocol dictates that Mr. Obama meet and negotiate nuclear arms control and other matters with him. Yet questions about Mr. Medvedev’s authority hang over the summit meeting like an awkward familial arrangement that everyone acknowledges but no one knows how to handle.

Mr. Obama himself waded into the issue on Thursday when he made a pointed remark about Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, who is Mr. Medvedev’s mentor and is widely assumed to be Russia’s real ruler.

Mr. Obama said that Mr. Putin, the former president, had “one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.” Mr. Obama said that it was time to move forward and that Mr. Medvedev “understands that.”

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Source: The New York Times
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  • futuregen
  • TabulaRasa
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      TabulaRasa  
    • Alright, the comments left already are pretty null.

      I find this article fascinating! I didn't know the whole Putin-Medvedev situation and this is like a 100w light bulb turning on for me hahah.
      Definitely a tricky situation to be in for the US.
      Kind of sounds like both Russia and the US are starting to bend over backwards for each other [with some small minor kinks to straighten out].

      And I'm out of words for now.... [thinking about other things]

    • 2 years ago
  • futuregen
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    • 2 years ago
  • RickDemocracy
  • Ragan
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      Ragan  
    • Ish05.. Finally I read someone who can wwrite and think like an intelligent man can. No name calling or hate mongering. I strill don't kow what a liberal is. To me there is no difference between Democrat and Republical, since Obama has the same programs of Bush so I can say that Obama is just a colored George Bush and yes, you agree with me that our leaders are just puppets to the Crown. Ha how about that? We had a revolutionary war to free ourselves from the british and we are still a crown colonies. Being run by the British Rothschilds. Probably Evelyn De Rothschild, the Queens adviser. We have made a 180 degree turn in 233 years.But never fear Obama is about to meet his match. I personally do not think that Obama is too smart for a constitutional Law Professor he sure as hell is butchering up our constitution. But getting back to Medvedev and Putin, these guys do have some smarts and I am sure they will have the answers. The Cold war was long ago and now A new Russia. We can get good uncensored news from; Moscow News and Russia Today. Keep up to date.

    • 2 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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    • Ragan:

      Hee!Hee! "Puppets to the Crown"? Happy 233rd Birthday America! Yes, Ragan, we quit being "puppets to the Crown" over 200 years ago! (Now, we're just slaves to a Marxist "president".)

    • 2 years ago
  • RickDemocracy
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      RickDemocracy  
    • Ragan:

      I agree.
      America's ass is still owned by the people behind the Bank of England...and the private US "Federal" "Reserve".

      The British pay income tax to these guys, and so do the Americans. Sadly, since 1992 so does all of Europe.

      There is only one thing coming to us: bankruptcy. Regardless of how much or how little we spend. The debt creates itself and cannot be paid back without generating more debt. Too few people understand why.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ish05
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      Ish05  
    • So what is Obama complaining about. Obama takes orders from George Soros, the British interest, Larry Summers and the Emanuel Brothers, Men far more dangerous than Putin. Heck, it's just to say that he also takes orders from Peloci, Frank, and their Wall Street interest, the medical insurance lobbyist, fighting against a real healthcare reform. The list of agents against the American Institution goes on and on.

    • 2 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • What a coincidence! I was going to say the same thing about Liberalism- the same liberalism that says people have a "right" to shout profanities at passerby, live in subway stations, defecate in public, and push people in front of trains, rather than getting them the help they need. The same liberals that tell us that people have a right to sit home, watch TV all day, get paid for it, and then show up at the liquor store when their check comes in first Iof the month and load up on cheap vodka Wild Irish Rose, and Hennessey- that they drink like water. (I know, I worked at a "State Store" in Pa.) Encouraging and rewarding bad behavior and accusing us who wish to put an end to it as "heartless." (like Guiliani- the liberals were aghast that he was actually arresting people for petty crimes like turnstile jumping, which actually made crime drop, and made New York livable once again- I used to visit NYC a lot, and the difference was palpable- no more harassment. These same liberals do not see that Putin and Obama philospohically are identical. Both Marxists- Putin wants to resurrest it in Russia, and Obama wants to introduce Marxism to the American people. And since we won't embrace it, he chooses to shove it down our throats. Looks like another revolution will happen here- but we have to overcome the brainwashed adherents first.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ish05
  • Bsmash
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      Bsmash  
    • The world needs to get away from their conservative ideals. All the issues that stem from conservative ideals will never be solved unless they wake up and open their eyes to what these ideas are doing to their own people.

    • 2 years ago
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