Reactions to president Medvedev's address to Russia's Federal Council, delivered shortly after Obama's election as the new U.S. president: Irina Filatova writes that Medvedev “talks tough, but in reality the moment may be past for an aggressive, Putin-style posture towards the US”; Eternal Remont wonders if this is “the international crisis McCain predicted for Obama”; Mmd Russia Blog posts a Russian take on the address and a “foreigner” one; Robert Amsterdam notes that “Medvedev congratulates then threatens Obama” and posts this comment from an anonymous reader: “There are several reasons to believe that the Russian government is quietly giddy with the election of Barack Obama, believing (correctly or incorrectly) that he will be lightweight in negotiations, and someone that the puffed-up Judo-chopping prime minister will be able to easily manhandle […].”
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[...] (Izbor linkova blogera na engleskom koji reaguju na Medvedevo obraćanje je ovde.) [...]