Nov. 29, 2010 (RIA Novasti) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev “plays Robin” to his strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s “Batman,” the U.S. embassy in Moscow said, according to documents leaked to international media by the Wikileaks website.
The embassy documents also called Medvedev “pale and hesitant” in comparison to the “alpha-dog” Putin.
However, despite Putin’s authoritarian image, there were also suggestions in the documents that the former KGB man was finding it tough to prevent his decisions getting bogged down in Russia’s notorious bureaucracy.
The United States also leaned hard on France to refrain from sale of a French helicopter carrier to Russia, Wikileaks reported.
