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The European Commission has proven itself utterly powerless whenever it is confronted by the Kremlin. This is partly due to the nature of the behemoth in Brussels, and partly because Russia has little interest in making concessions to a polity that it sees as being only temporary.
 

President Medvedev has been on his second working visit to France this week, and met with President Sarkozy on March 1st. Preparations for the forthcoming G8 and G20 summits were high on the agenda, as was the Iranian nuclear programme.
 

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev this week reaffirmed his commitment to the idea of a new European security pact.
 
He told an international security conference in the Russian city of Yaroslavl on Monday that the proposal is not directed against any nation, stating that any new agreement should help improve rapport among the European nations.