Tom Balmforth, Russia Profile
on new START Treaty.“A symbolic gesture is a good thing when you create goodwill, but why make a symbolic gesture that creates bad will?” asked Lozansky. The Russian press, for one, saw little positive potential for the decision in the “reset” relations. “When it comes to Patriots, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is always a patriot,” ran yesterday’s Kommersant’s headline. But the Foreign Ministry’s response has been surprisingly muted. Speaking at a press conference on Friday to assess the foreign policy results of 2009, an unusually laid back Lavrov said: “incidentally, I haven’t heard all the information on it yet, but if what I’ve heard is correct, then it raises the simple question: why is it necessary to do something that creates the impression that Poland is strengthening itself against Russia? That, I don’t understand.”
Aleksandr Golts, a military analyst and the deputy
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