RussPress ? Blog Archive ? ?Double luck? and personal diplomacy ...

Russia supported the sanctions resolution the UN Security Council on Iran and has pledged not to supply Tehran anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 which has been contracted.

Exactly four weeks left before the change of power in Russia, where instead of Dmitry Medvedev, slyvuschego in the West ?liberal?, will take the presidency, Vladimir Putin, who is called the ?iron? and ?a preacher of authoritarianism?. Based on previous experience of Putin?s presidency and his unequivocal election arguments most experts expect the new ?cool? between Moscow and the West.
Especially it will be felt in the light of the fact that Medvedev is running out ?on the positive?: when it was restored ?the Russian-American friendship? and his personal relationship with Barack Obama in general can be described as idyllic. However, the four-year Medvedev?s foreign policy could be the worst since the Cold War period in relations between Russia and the West recalled the magazine ?Kommersant Vlast?.

Durind?Dmitry Medvedev?s presidency Russia went to war for the first time outside its own territory ? it was in August 2008 in Georgia. After that Moscow recognized the independence of Georgia?s breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and almost ended up in international isolation. Medvedev risked to get into the company of ?odious??leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Surrounded by the outgoing Russian president even said that he was mentally ready for this.

But Medvedev?was ?double luck?, the article says. First, the chairman of the European Union at the time was France, with which Russia has developed a very close relationship. If the war has fallen when?the EU leadership was under?Czech Republic or Sweden instead of?France, it could turn out differently.

The second stroke of luck for Dmitri Medvedev, as paradoxical as it sounds, was the global financial crisis, in which economic pragmatism prevailed over raging in Europe, political emotions.

When it became clear that the crisis in relations between Russia and Europe will not and the case went to reconciliation, played a major role, again, France and Germany, represented by their leaders Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, remember in the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry. How to tell the magazine sources in the Administration of the President and people who?often accompanied Medvedev in his?foreign trips, he more than anyone else made friends with the Chancellor of Germany.

Prior to this, in 2009, was declared the famous ?reset? between Russia and the United States. A year later, was a historic meeting of the NATO ? Russia Council Summit in Lisbon, where there was a sensation: Medvedev suggested the U.S. to build together with Moscow? a European sectoral missile defense system. After this, analysts have said: in the relationship of the parties there was a reverse of the situation.

At the same time?appears??friendship with the USA? can safely write to the personal merits of Dmitry Medvedev. While working on a treaty on reducing strategic offensive weapons, Russian President was a ?master?, said Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov,?who that time worked at the Foreign Ministry and was head of the delegation of negotiators from Moscow. Medvedev and Obama spoke more than 15 times, sometimes on the telephone conversation dragged a couple of hours.
According to Antonov, Medvedev personally found a compromise in a dispute negotiate seriously hampers the exchange of telemetric data on missiles. U.S. that the new missile systems do not test, demanded by Russia to share information about its tests and to prescribe a commitment on paper. Moscow is considered that such a clause in the contract should not be.

As a result, it is not even found Medvedev concession and mutually ?diplomatic isolation? problem: each side, it was decided to allow itself to determine which telemetry data, and how missile launches, it will provide the partner.

In order to maintain established relationships with the United States, Russia, after the historic signing of the US-Russian START II Treaty in Prague in 2010 was to meet Washington, even on those issues on which during the administration of George W. Bush firmly opposed by the Americans. First of all, supported the sanctions resolution the UN Security Council on Iran and has pledged not to supply Tehran?contracted anti-aircraft missile systems S-300.

?Kommersant-Vlast? tells the story. On the eve of the adoption of resolution on Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said that the sanctions will not affect Moscow?s plans to ship Tehran S-300. Learning of this, who was at that time in Tashkent, Medvedev, who is not ashamed of the journalists left in the hearts of the foreign minister Sergei Lavrov: ?head to tear it right!? Later, the president personally disavowed said Nesterenko, and eight months later he was sent as ambassador to Montenegro.
Additional check on the strength of the friendship between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama was during the spy scandal in the summer of 2010, when the U.S. had been arrested ten Russian agents, illegal immigrants, ?the head? with Anna Chapman. Moscow unexpectedly quickly recognized for their detainees, and the scandal quickly faded away, without causing harm to relationships.

Economic result of the Russian-American friendship has become Russia?s accession to the WTO. And Medvedev is a historic event may carry in their asset, the author writes. ?WTO accession Medvedev was a gift from the West and from Obama ? said political analyst Nikolai Zlobin. ? He appreciated the frankness Medvedev, who helped to build a realistic relationship.?

?Obama and his team, it was important for Russia to join WTO is under Medvedev? ? agreed to a Kremlin official. ?And they understood that if a ride to Moscow with this case, Putin would be reason to send them all. And in general, the more we take over the obligations from which we can not just shrug off, the better. This discipline? ? he concluded.

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