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G20 Summit Results: Bargaining Is not Over

G20 Summit Results:  Bargaining Is not Over

By Nikolay Starikov

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The meeting of the world’s leading countries came to an end. Just as I thought, the strike on Syria was not commenced before G20; during the meeting the attack would have been absolutely inappropriate.

The Syria problem became an integral part of global bargaining. I wrote about the negotiations in the article Obama Is Getting Ready to Bargain with Putin.

Time to draw conclusions and assess what happened.

But first, some facts.

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Why I Moved to Russia. Story 1 of 7

By Oleg Vereshyagin

Hans, 11 years old, German:  I don’t want to be “the German!”

Painting "Afternoon Tea"

If anyone remembers, there was a TV program in soviet times called They Chose USSR. It was about people from capitalist countries who for whatever reason moved to “the correct” side of the Iron Curtain. The program was most certainly buried with the beginning of perestroika [perestroika means restructure, rebuild in Russian – RV], for it became fashionable to talk about the Kramorovs and Nurievs, who went West in hopes of high praises of their enormous talents and were happily creative there. This was hard to grasp for the rest of us, miserable soviet red necks. Actually, the flow of people was mutual; more than that – after a while the “from there to here” flow was GREATER. This thought will seem strange and unusual for our counterparts, poisoned with Ogoneks [liberal, anti-patriotic periodicals – RV] and such, even those more patriotic.

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