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...presumably the Gimmicks Directorate), Lavrov had to explain that the button actually said overload. It caused some awkward laughter. "We won't let you do that to us," Clinton joked, and they went ahead and pressed the button anyway. "So that's how things have turned out," says Dmitri Rogozin, Russia's envoy to NATO. "They pressed the wrong button, and over time the relationship was overloaded. So far the right button still hasn't been pressed." (See pictures of Clinton in Russia...
...Rogozin puts the matter more bluntly. "Medvedev sincerely believes that Obama can be trusted," he tells TIME. "But that doesn't mean this opinion is shared at every level, especially the levels where the implementation of their agreements is borne out." This reality - the disconnect between what Medvedev pledges and what Russia does - has eroded the spirit behind the reset strategy as well as its practical objectives. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
Russia The Kremlin did not immediately give an official reaction, but not surprisingly, senior Russian officials expressed support for the move. "It's like having a decomposing corpse in your flat, and then the undertaker comes and takes it away," said Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to NATO, according to the BBC. "This means we're getting rid of one of those niggling problems which prevented us from doing the real work...
...Israeli interception of the cargo is the most likely explanation. But this theory, which some Russian analysts put forward in the days after the Arctic Sea was rescued and which Kouts agreed with in his interview with TIME, has been vehemently denied by Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, who says Kouts should stop "running his mouth." (Read "Girding for the Pirates' Revenge...
...Speaking to TIME, NATO envoy Rogozin backed up the investigator's statement: "The cargo has to be checked to see if there was something illegal, something being smuggled." But he declined to comment on the theory of Israeli interception. "This is no longer a question for diplomats or for the military," he said. "It is now a question for the investigators, and they are carrying on with their work. We are also very curious to hear their findings." (See pictures of the face of modern piracy...