One may have the feeling that the content of Medvedev’s presidency was writ in water.  One of the slightly more concrete elements of his tenure, however, remains his overseeing of the ‘reset’ with the US.  For President Barack Obama, the i-pad-toting lawyer was a more obvious sympathizer than predecessor Putin, behind whom the shadow of the Cold War has always loomed.  Today on the sidelines of the nuclear terrorism summit in Seoul, Obama and Medvedev met for the last time before the latter relinquishes the Presidency.  Since Obama too faces an election, and, if he loses, a Republican successor is unlikely to prove pliant in relations with Russia, is this the swan song of the reset?  Russia Profile points out that the entente cordiale was never set in stone: