What Reset Button?
The emergence of a Kremlin leader without a KGB background, combined with the uncertainty generated by the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow, will be coming to a country on the verge of a political thaw, or revived perestroika. But pushing the “re-set button” on US-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team ever imagined.
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MOSCOW – The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitri Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow, America’s president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika . But pushing the “re-set button” on US-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team imagined.