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US-Russian relations are having a bit of a déjà vu moment — at least in the PR stakes. Last week, President Obama's inadvertently-recorded, obsequious assurance to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have "more flexibility" in his dealings with the Russian Federation after the election inspired Mitt Romney to jump in with his own misstep: referring to the Russian Federation as America's "number one geopolitical foe". In turn, Medvedev gleefully retorted that Romney should "check the time, because it's 2012 now, not the mid-1970s".