| For those of us who think that GWB made a mistake when he 'looked into Putin's soul', this isn't alltogether bad news. |
MOSCOW - Russia is bracing for a tougher stance from Washington following the Democratic party’s victory in US Congressional elections, analysts and media here said on Thursday. “It’s certainly not going to help,” Kremlin-connected analyst Vyacheslav Nikonov told AFP, speaking of Tuesday’s mid-term elections in which Democrats won control of the House of Representatives and appeared to squeak ahead in the Senate.
“Historically, Democrats have always been more complicated for us than Republicans,” Nikonov said, invoking Soviet-era conventional wisdom about American presidents.
And while President George W. Bush has two more years in office, the new Democratic Congress is likely to fight him “every step of the way,” Nikonov said -- including on key Russian priorities such as membership in the World Trade Organization. |