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Summary

Умиротворение агрессора: Обама Барак Хуссейнович и Путин Владимир Владимирович договариваются о капитуляции обобщённого Запада перед российской агрессией и об установлении Русского мира во всём мире.

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English

Barak Obama congratulates Russian usurper putin with successful seizing of parts of Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia). Obama encourages putin to continue in the same way; in particular, to seize at least part of Ukraine during Obama's cadence; Obama promises Putin to organize sabotage of implementation of guarantees specified in Budapest memorandum.

Russian

Обама Барак Хуссейнович поздраляет путина с успехом Российского вторжения в Грузию и обещает организовать саботаж выполнения гарантий по Будапештскому меморандуму, если Российское вторжение в Украину начнётся во время правления Обамы.

Original description

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/obama-meets-with-vladimir-putin-024621

Vladimir Putin speaks of Barack Obama's as an opportunity to remove pall that had settled over exchanges between two countries.

By JOSH GERSTEIN

07/07/2009 04:42 AM EDT Updated: 07/07/2009 09:37 AM EDT

MOSCOW — President Barack Obama met for the first time Tuesday with the man most consider to be Russia’s top power broker, Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin — and came out of the meeting expressing a higher opinion of Putinthan when he went in.

Obama managed a few strained smiles during a four-minute photo opportunity at the outset of the meeting, though he seemed wary of creating too cheery an image in the company of the former KGB officer.

“I’m aware of not only the extraordinary work that you’ve done on behalf of the Russianpeople ... as president, but in your current role as prime minister,” Obama said during a breakfast meeting at Putin’s country home on the outskirts of Moscow. “We think there’s an excellent opportunity to put U.S.-Russian relations on a much stronger footing.”

Yet by the meeting’s end, Obama had revised his assessment of Putin and is now “very convinced the prime minister is a man of today and he’s got his eyes firmly on the future,” a senior U.S. official told reporters after the meeting concluded.

That’s a far more generous assessment of Putin than Obamaoffered ahead of the meeting — saying in an interview last week that “Putin has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what changed Obama’s view, or whether Obama and his team merely wanted to take the opportunity to walk back his original, rather brusque comments. The view might also reflect that the reality is now more starkly apparent to the U.S. side after back-to-back meetings with Putin and his hand-picked successor, President Dmitri Medvedev — that Putin remains a force to be reckoned with in any attempt to thaw the chilly relations between the two nations. Another Obama aide acknowledged there were extensive discussions between Obama and Putin about trouble spots in the U.S.-Russia relationship, such as the U.S. missile defense shield and Russia’s invasion of Georgia.

“What was striking was that there was a clear definition of where we disagreed,” another official said. “There was none of this diplomatic speak. ... It was a frank discussion on hard security interests.”

The talks also covered terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and climate change, U.S. officials said. The planned 90-minute session ran over by a half hour at Obama’s insistence, so he could be sure his relationship with Putin was on solid footing, they added.

For his part, Putin spoke of Obama’s visit as an opportunity to remove a pall that had settled over exchanges between the two countries in recent years.

“The history of relations between Russia and the United States has very many different occasions and events of different, shall we say, color,” Putin said, as the two men sat in chairs in front of an ornate fireplace. “There were periods when our relations flourished quite a bit and there were also periods of, shall we say, grayish mood between our two countries and of stagnation. With you we link all our hopes for the furtherance of relations between our two countries.”

Putin, courteously, did not bring up Obama’s unflattering “old ways” comment during the public portion of their meeting Tuesday. However, the former president, who is known for his sharp tongue, laughed off Obama’s pointed comment soon after it was published. “We don’t stand bow-legged,” he told Russia’s Interfax news agency. “We are firmly standing on both our legs and always look to the future.”

Obama’s audience with Putin followed lengthier talks the U.S. president held at the Kremlin on Monday with Medvedev. Following those meetings, the two men announced new targets for reductions in nuclear arms, as well as a deal permitting U.S. military personnel and equipment to fly over Russia en route to Afghanistan. At the meeting with Putin, Obama publicly expressed his delight with the outcome of his conversations with Medvedev. “We had excellent discussions with the president yesterday,” he told the prime minister.

Putin, who served as president from 2000 to 2008, was credited with overseeing a period of solid economic growth in Russia and improvement in the standard of living of many residents. However, he maintained close ties to oligarchs who are perceived to benefit from official corruption. Toward the end of his presidency, he was faulted for moving in an authoritarian direction by cracking down on dissidents, consolidating control of the mass media and using trumped-up legal proceedings to force the nationalization of a major oil firm.

Now, experts on Russia say, Putin’s exact role in his country’s government remains murky, though many suspect he is pulling the strings behind the scenes with Medvedev.

So in his public commets, Obama was particularly careful not to gush over Putin, as George W. Bush famously did at his first summit with Putin, where he declared he had looked into the Russian leader’s soul.

While White House officials have insisted that they are not trying to diminish Putin or give a boost to Medvedev, Obama’s itinerary seemed intended to do just that. After four hours of meetings with Medvedev on Monday, Obama was scheduled to hold another work session and lunch with the Russian president Tuesday. On Monday, the two new leaders — both younger, Internet-savvy former law professors — sought to display a sense of newfound bonhomie, even amid ongoing disagreements over development of a U.S. missile shield.

Obama has been unstinting in his praise of Medvedev, whom he first met in April at an economic summit in London. After Monday’s meetings, Obama declared that he trusted Medvedev to carry out promises he made on behalf of Russia. In an interview last week, Obama called the man often viewed as Putin’s puppet “a very thoughtful, forward-thinking individual.” “He is doing a fine job,” Obama said.

As he wrapped up his Moscow visit on Tuesday, Obama also was to draw attention to the power base outside the Kremlin in separate meetings with opposition leaders, businesspeople, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations gathered for a “civil society summit” — a nod to groups that have sought to shine a light on Moscow’s notorious corruption and increasingly repressive ways that worry American officials nervous about Russian backsliding from democracy.

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