Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet...
working in Russia.Reinfeldt will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has called Reinfeldt"s visit to Russia a diplomatic "thaw." The paper reported bilateral relations grew colder when Sweden slammed Russia over its war with Georgia in 2008.
Tbilisi broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow after a five-day war over South Ossetia in August 2008. Russia later recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian province, Abkhazia, in a move described by Georgia as "annexation."
MOSCOW/STOCKHOLM, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
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