Obama transferred the G8 summit for the convenience of Putin

After the victory of Vladimir Putin in the election, the White House decided to transfer the G8 Summit to the Camp David. He was supposed to take place in Chicago the day before the NATO summit, as announced in the summer of 2011.

Obama congratulated Putin with a victory one of the last, but took a friendly step, passing the summit. A source of Kommersant , close to the US administration, announced the background of this transfer: it turns out that almost the main reason for the transfer of the G8 summit was the desire of the White House to establish relations with Putin.

Last year, the new president of the Russian Federation was called in Chicago for the G8 summit, and then - for the Russia -NATO summit, but Moscow replied that the future president would conduct a Summit with NATO only if it was possible to advance in the negotiations on the pro. “Given that it was not possible to agree on May software, an unpleasant situation could arise when, after the G8 summit, Putin defiantly leaves Chicago,” the newspaper’s source explained.

This is confirmed by the sources in the Kremlin and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: "Without promotion of the pro, there is no point in the NATO summit. But the sudden departure can be interpreted by Western media as an unwillingness to negotiate and play against us."

As a result, according to the American source, in order to avoid the conflict of the relationship of the new President of the Russian Federation with the West, Barack Obama decided to urgently transfer the summit.