Snow is Still White in the Fields…Personal Notes on the Margins of the Munich Security Conference

... had improved greatly over the past year, but he had not changed the old “heroic” image of the champion of “European values”. Mikhail Saakashvili, who had visibly put on weight, was spotted again and again in the company of important ... ... calm and restraint, a call that the audience massively ignored, thus stirring the measured pace of the discussion. Russia and China Falling Off the Radar? Dmitry Medvedev rekindled interest in the Ukrainian crisis. Making a speech early on the second day ...