The Russian media's White House-ology

Posted By Joshua Keating Monday, July 6, 2009 - 11:48 AM Share

The relationship and power dynamic between Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin remains intriguingly mysterious for the Western media. But it's interesting to see how Russian papers are doing their own "Kremlinology" on factions in the White House. This Nezavistimaya Gazeta article, via Johnson's Russia List, theorizes about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's absence on Obama's trip to Russia. It's seems they're not buying the broken arm story:

In any event, Obama is not going to be accompanied by State Secretary Hillary Clinton on this visit, and experts ascribe it to two considerations (the formal explanation concerning Clinton's elbow trauma is dismissed, of course). First, official Moscow associates the incumbent US State Secretary with Bill Clinton's Administration and everything that transpired in its period - war in Yugoslavia, 1998 default. Second, the US President apparently wants the triumph he counts on for his own, without the necessity to share it with the Clintons whose clan occupies commanding heights in the Democratic Party.

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