i would mention that the russian attitudes towards obama are not so straightforward s irina yasina has mentioned. many people see obama's charisma, they enjoy his openness, but many people doubt whether he is really experienced, whether this charisma is translated into american leadership and protecting american national interests in inappropriate ways. whether his his speech in egypt or other places, it actually increases his personal popularity but many believed it does not solve the american leadership -- they don't believe it serves american leadership. there is a strong temptation in moscow to test obama in a way that nikita khrushchev tested john kennedy in 1961. you remember the berlin crisis and the cuban crisis. the military exercises which are now going on near the georgian border, which is a clear demonstration of russian forces and an attempt to intimidate, it is also a kind of test for obama because i believe it is creating a certain background, a certain environment for the forthcoming negotiations, including those on the@@@@@@"")rr arms control problem we should not forget that russia is the only country which can

s very dismisve,lmost vulr. i came awayhinking this is not an ea problem. president obama anhis earlier trips, just the force of his personality, his charisma, his abilitto uses ihink has really created excitement overseas. russians are in a more orderly and resentf mood it and it ll take more than his charm they are in a me orne and sentful mood and it will take more than his charm to brk through it. we have to lten to their prblems. tavis:ell me what th process ought to be. tt assumes thatt can be done. let's say pgress can be made. >> i think it can be done. we g into the habit in the 1990's when russia was so wek after the fallf communism of thinking we real did not have to take their vews seriously. we did not. we just iored them. they said we're not happy about nato expansion. we said, so what? ey said we are nt happy about georgia and georgia's provocations, as they see them. we said basically, so what. we do not have that luxury anymore. if wnt russia as partner on issues like in and north korea, ther is no way toake progress witut having to listen to them. weave to takehen they say this is an important security concern for us, we he to listen d resp

charm is great, charisma is great, popularitis great, b other countries have other intests and they're going t stick with them and th barack obama at the d of date is going o have to could s diplomacy by hard work andlocking and tackling like any othermere moral and it's justnot going to comeasy. en: so by theend of the week, at did he get nd what didn't he ge >> ell, let e ake iran becae that was the numr one issue fo theobama adminisation of the whole week. we can lookt other pieces of it too. on iran, if you want to know what did hey really wat, they wanted to ove the russians a little bit. ne -- they wanted t get a hearing fortheir bid that the russians have to be tougher and sanctns gwen: because its nuclear weaponsrogram? >> because ofits, iran' nuclear wpons program. andbecause ofthe domestic troubles and e regime is walling itse back in. nosign of medvedev. came out befor the summit an said lok, iran is or prtner, we think sancions are a bad idea. move thepicture tohe g-8 summit and thee the uned states and allies brtain, germany and rance wanted a tough statement bout iran and again, couldn't do it. couldn't ge the ussianes to sign on thehey got an ok statementha