September 3, 2008 (LPAC)--Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the strain in Russian-U.S. relations is due to the "not quite wise" US policy in Georgia, in an interview with European television given in Sochi yesterday. The interview is being played as "Moscow attacks the USA while being more conciliatory toward Europe," by the usual international press crew, especially because the interview was given on the eve of Cheney's trip to the Transcaucasus.
What Medvedev said, however, like this week's major speech by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and even the Foreign Ministry's comment on the Cheney tour, was very carefully worded to allow for a resumption of normal relations with the USA. According to the Kremlin transcript, Medvedev said, "I do not think that this is some kind of full-fledged, full-scale crisis, comparable with the Soviet period, but, nonetheless, there is strain [between Russia and the USA]. It has come about as the consequence of a not quite wise policy that the USA pursued on the Georgian track. ... The sooner our American partners figure out this issue, the better it will be for Russian-U.S. relations. We, for our part, are prepared for them to be restored in the most cordial way; we are ready for full-format relations with the USA."
Medvedev said the USA "at some moment had inculcated in the leader of Georgia the feeling that anything goes, the sense of impunity. It's as if he received a blank check to act in any way whatsoever. And what the outcome was is quite evident. As of today, I think there is a certain level of annoyance in the USA, that the virtual project called Free Georgia has failed: the leader went bankrupt, the regime is close to a crisis, and the situation is tense," Medvedev said.
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