"Disappointing" may be the common post-mortem on the Bratislava summit, but it would still be unfair to call the meeting a non-event. Reviewing the unresolved issues, it is now possible to see that the preparations on the Russian side were rather unconventional: it appeared that Moscow had been deliberately piling up as many problems as diplomatically possible.
Baev, Pavel K. (2005) Is Europe too Small for both Bush and Putin?, Eurasia Daily Monitor. 28 February.
