Russia and the United States dropped a load restart

And preparing for a new confrontation

By the end of this year, it became clear that after several years of exemplary friendship, Moscow and Washington have returned to more familiar to a relationship of distrust. Fell out of their plans for the deployment in Europe of U.S. missile defense system, which the U.S. and NATO flatly refuse to build with Russia. The parties are still hoping to avoid confrontation, but do not do this for practically nothing.


The failure of the US-Russia reset, which is so proud of her running the Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, became the main result of the year between the two countries. During the exponential of friendship that the two leaders stressed at every opportunity, Russia and the United States, perhaps the first really close to the level of partner relations. They just barely, but agreed on a new treaty on reducing strategic offensive arms and ratified it. Moscow and Washington are surprisingly consistently acted in relation to third countries - supported by the UN Security Council sanctions against Iran and denounced the regime with Qaddafi in Libya. Moreover, abstained in the UN Security Council for resolution 1973, authorizing the use of any methods of influence on Tripoli, but the ground intervention, Moscow, in fact, untied the hands of the West, who began a military operation in Libya.