In the spirit of the pleasant Sunday, Drugoi, one of
Russia's most popular bloggers, has posted a video link
to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit yesterday to Losiny
Ostrov National Park. Putin, known for intimidating
tigers, European journalists, and generally anyone from Georgia or
Ukraine, was downright huggy and warm as he welcomed World Environment Day,
feeding a moose calf and planting a tree.
Relations with Russia
in general have appeared to bear more fruit as part of what the Obama
Administration called a "reset"
of relations between Moscow and Washington. That has been the case, for
example, in Moscow rejecting the Turkish-Brazilian deal with Iran on
uranium enrichment, and supporting new sanctions.
So
one wonders where this fuzzy-and-squeeziness is headed, if anywhere.
Will Putin plant one on President Obama's cheek the next time they meet?
Will he massage
Angela Merkel's shoulders?
May we suggest, in case Putin is
seeking ideas:
**A cognac tipple with Georgia's Mikheil
Saakashvili next Feb.
23? Friendship in the neighborhood would go far, especially in
providing Moscow again with Borjomi water.
**House
arrest in Moscow for Mikhail
Khodorkovsky? The former oligarch merely aspired to run the Duma
after all, and whatever the case you have the body all tied up now.
**A
brotherly handshake with Boris Berezovsky?
Ummm
... maybe not.
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