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Stratfor (www.stratfor.com) does regular analyses of geopolitical events. Their July 7th report (reprinted below) was an interesting review of the recent US-Russian summit: what did and didn’t happen.
The U.S.-Russian Summit Turns Routine
July 7, 2009
By George Friedman

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