"Medvedev Praises EU Over Sanctions"
Simon Saradzhyan, The Moscow Times | September 4, 2008
Despite the call for sanctions on Russia from Poland and the three Baltic states, the only agreement the EU made was to postpone talks about a partnership agreement with Moscow. ++ Medvedev praised the EU's decision to reject sanctioning Russia, but was disappointed about the EU's inability to understand Russia's motives in the Caucasus war. ++ The US welcomed the EU's decision to boost efforts to resolve the crisis and both the EU and US agreed that the choice to isolate Russia from Europe must come from Moscow itself.
