mr. lavrov. >> thank you for the invitation. >> in may, 2010, there was a leak of a 70-page document to thesweek" in which you are supposed to have written that barack obama had the potential to be a transformational president who would change the character of u.s.-russian relations. and he was battling an intelligence military foreign policy establishment that wanted a more confrontational relationship. so two years in, has obama transformed u.s.-russian relations? >> well, i don't think we wrote exactly what you quoted. but we certainly believe that the slogan of change under which president obama came to office was a comprehensive one and embraced not only domestic politics but international and have seen a change in attitudes, the atmosphere is very different from the last years of the bush administration. and i think from the first meeting with president medvedev, i believe it was in london, they understood each other and agreed that they would not ignore the differences. but first they would concentrate on making sure that whatever could be done to remove those differences would be do