Analysis: Bush Faces Russian Balancing Act

AP – It was five years ago Monday when President Bush peered into Vladimir Putin’s eyes for the first time and got “a sense of his soul,” pronouncing the Russian president “straightforward and trustworthy.”

Bush might want to take a closer look when Russia hosts its first meeting of the world’s economic powers. The Group of Eight summit takes place next month against a backdrop of increasing friction between Putin and the West over his hardball tactics on oil and his distancing from democracy.
TheState.com