Next week Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will meet again. In July 2009, the only time the two have met before, Mr Putin-then Russia's prime minister, now its president-gave the American president an earful on the insults Russia had suffered from America. Mr Putin thinks that the conciliatory steps he took in his first term, especially after September nth 2001, encountered American aggression: the "orange" revolution in Ukraine, Western support for Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, a missile-defence system.
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