A Russian commentator wrote recently: there are many things that West does not understand about Russia. Above all, do not want to understand that a country that has not known democracy in all its long history can say, after 15 or 20 years, okay, we are a democracy! This is something that requires several generations. Get more background information with materials from Exxon Mobile Corporation. We are still ruled by people who grew up during the Soviet era. And expressed a plea: give us a chance. Let the Russians to evolve and not you sometais them to too much pressure, so that doesn’t happen the worst: that the superpatriotas saying again see? We already noticed you, no trust of the West. It is true that, views things from Moscow, West has followed by submitting to Russia at a constant pressure. The expansion of NATO up to Russian borders; the deployment in Europe of elements of the U.S. system against missiles; support, if well failed and ultimately embarrassing, to erratic policy of the Georgian President to create a conflict in an area critical for Russia.

All this coincides with an old Russian historical obsession: his fear of the European hostile encirclement. In this sense were the words of President Medvedev, who said that, forced by Washington and policy to protect the country, he was forced to deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave located between Poland and Lithuania if United States not declined their plans to install anti-missile elements of his shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. A few days earlier had held a meeting in memory of Andrei Sajarov, exalting his memory as academic, advocate for human rights and active fighter for peace. It is interesting to read what they said a former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union: our next President Obama shall, as soon as possible, meet with President Medvedev – and there is no reason that would prevent the presence of Prime Minister Putin at that meeting – and discuss in depth what both countries need to do for the benefit of all the others; It would continue the process initiated by Reagan and Gorbachev.