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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
IN RECENT YEARS, the relations between Russia and the United States have been developing under the sign of the "reset" that was initiated in early 2009 by Russian President D. Medvedev and U.S. President B. Obama
The "reset" replaced an acute phase of confrontation. That was how the relations between our countries were described under the President George W. Bush's Republican administration in the U.S. Despite the highfalutin statements about partnership that were contained in joint Russian-U.S. declarations approved at the top level in 2002 and 2008. these relations, in the opinion of many experts, have dropped to the lowest point since the end of the Cold War. The culmination of that was the so-called Caucasus crisis in August 2008 when Washington openly took the side of the Georgian leadership that had provoked an armed conflict with Russia.
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