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...Though no major breakthroughs were made during the summit, there were also no major collisions. "Expectations that the summit would only cause troubles and fruitless discussions were wrong," says Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at independent think tank The Carnegie Moscow Center. "It looks like it wasn?t extremely successful, but it wasn't a failure." Referring to past E.U. conferences that have been held in remote Russian cities, he adds: "If anything, this was a continuation of E.U. field trips into Russia's deep countryside...
...Although it vividly outlines the worsened relations between Russia and the West, the anti-Western rhetoric is tempered with acknowledgment of the beginning of rapprochement with the Obama Administration. "Now there is a viewpoint in the Kremlin that the U.S. can be worked with," says Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, an independent think tank. "Russia has come out and specifically formulated its foreign and defense policy. However, this paper is not setting out how policy will look; it is setting out the de facto situation." (See pictures behind the scenes with Obama in Europe...
...military force to protect and even expand its reserve of resources, the tone has been softened. "If you look at what was formulated concerning Arctic strategy last year and you look at this paper, it looks as if the government position has changed and become more moderate," says Petrov. "Another explanation is that the foreign ministry is trying to present strategy in a less aggressive...
...Others who are familiar with both papers disagree. "The social issues are decorative additions, but the document was not significantly revised," says the Carnegie Moscow Center's Petrov. "Even so, the idea of returning Russia to greatness [is now] less important in comparison to the economic crisis. In the end, in the middle of the crisis there is no real reason to formulate this strategy because no one knows what will happen between now and 2020." And although Russia remains on the offensive on many fronts - from nukes to energy and the Arctic - continuing negotiations with the U.S. may mean...
Adding to the speculation is the fact that Putin and Medvedev's supporters are "almost in open conflict," says Petrov. "Medvedev's people are pretty openly criticizing Vladislav Surkov" - the deputy chief of staff in Medvedev's Kremlin who is a Putin loyalist...