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Russian-British relations have good potential – Dmitry Medvedev
Published: 26 June, 2010, 15:56
Edited: 19 July, 2010, 07:41
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) speaks with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron during their meeting at G8 leaders summit at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, on June 26, 2010
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British PM David Cameron have pledged to improve relations between the two countries. The first meeting of the leaders took place on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Canada.
Cameron, who took office last month, said the talks provided a real opportunity to put ties between Moscow and London on a new footing.
“We discussed what is happening within the G8 and G20, but what is most important, we discussed the current state of bilateral relations and we agreed that they require some correction,” Medvedev said. “We instructed our foreign ministers to be in contact and to discuss the agenda of our relations.”
Relations have been soured by several issues, including the controversy over the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, and the UK’s criticism of Russia after the war in South Ossetia in 2008.
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Most people in Britain actually regard you guys pretty highly these days, we're not as fanatically patriotic as the US and many of us actually bother to read up on world history. We are fully aware of Russia's sacrifices in WW2 and how far russia has come since the collapse of the USSR. It's about time we put the past behind this East-West standoff and just tried to get on with each other for the sake of the rest of the world. Because of the historic ties we have with America our governments tends to make stupid decisions like following them into stupid pointless wars in the middle east. I can tell you that the majority of the British people did not support these wars and could see from the start it was just going to turn into Vietnam all over again. The British population does not hold America in such high regard as you might think since the apauling reign of Bush. We are sick of our governments making bad decisions on our behalf knowing full well that none of the population is behind them. Hopefully our new government under David Cameron will start to correct the mistakes of our former governments.
Don't the Russians watch movies? The cold war is over & James Bond is still killing Russians on the big screen.The 'bad' Russian is now a mafia thug as opposed to a Communist thug..As far as history is concerned, the British have been meddling with Russian destiny since the Crimean war...That won't change...I hope Medvedev is smart enough to see that the post cold war 'language' has changed but not the motives.Just like Japan, Britain is an island nation perpetually desperate for natural resources. Britain regards Russia much as Japan regards China...disdain for the people coupled with a fascination for the sheer scale of resources & geography.
Russia's history in the Great Patriotic War is one of the few countries in the world who can genuinely be proud of what it did.