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Obama shouldn't put too much hope in a Kremlin-led thaw
By Masha Lipman
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Saturday, July 04, 2009

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The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitri Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow, America's president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika.

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