Thursday, 28 August 2008
The Star
Jon Boyle MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of a new Cold War. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stands in front of a canon at a World War Two memorial in Kursk August 18, 2008. Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of a new Cold War. (REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin) The Kremlin leader flew to Tajikistan for a summit of a regional security...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, second right, seen with Kremlin Aide Sergei Prikhodko, left, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Head of the Presidential Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, left background, before an informal meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service