It will be exactly a year this week since President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his first major foreign policy speech in Berlin, in which he called for a complete overhaul of the European security system. So far, nothing real has come of it. Why does he keep raising the big issues without showing much interest in implementing his own proposals? Is Medvedev’s foreign policy apparatus, largely inherited from Vladimir Putin, underperforming, particularly compared with his sleek and sophisticated press operation? What is the view from the West on Medvedev’s style in diplomacy?
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