Obama and Medvedev: psychological peas in a pod

The accession to power of both Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev led to hopes among “liberals” that they would make some significant changes to their respective country’s foreign and domestic policies.

The accession to power of both Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev led to hopes among “liberals” that they would make some significant changes to their respective country’s foreign and domestic policies. It was probably the case that the biggest hopes in the US were for a change in foreign policy that was less aggressive, and the biggest hopes in Russia were for a change in domestic policy that was less restrictive.

But both Obama and Medvedev have disappointed large numbers of their supporters. Of course, to some degree this was inevitable.

By Jeff Schubert

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