Who is out to get Gordon Brown? Or perhaps more aptly, who isn’t? The beleaguered British Prime Minister probably couldn’t have had a more frustratingly empty first meeting with new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the G8 in Japan, and many are pointing to the ill-timed media leaks which have succeeded in aggravating the Russians. Despite promising “very frank” talks with Medvedev on a number of critical issues ranging from TNK-BP to the British Council to the Lugovoi extradition, Brown seemed to go into the meeting lacking any kind of carrots or soft power, encountered by an uncharacteristically disinterested Medvedev.