Medvedev: "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with"
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev again put the West on notice that Moscow will exert its military and economic might with new determination, saying Saturday that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" after its war with Georgia.
With a US Navy ship unloading aid off Georgia's Black Sea coast within shooting distance of Russian troops, Medvedev's comments were another reminder that the Kremlin views last month's war as the start of a new era in Russian assertiveness.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, said "the truth is on our side" and likened the situation in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia with Srebrenica - the Bosnian town that was the site of Europe's worst mass carnage since World War II.
In France, the European Union's 27 foreign ministers were reluctant to provoke Moscow, with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner saying the EU did not plan to impose sanctions against Russia.
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