TODAY: Medvedev adopts “soft-sell” approach in Berlin; EU officials mediate between Georgia and Russia; Putin seeks museum investment; future looks bleak for tabloid The eXile. President Dmitry Medvedev is “satisfied” with the results of his talks in Berlin, at which he reportedly adopted a “soft-sell approach” to foreign policy. At the end of his visit, he called for a “regional pact” to replace Cold War peace treaties, and warned that US and Nato military expansion could destroy relations between East and West “in a radical way, for a long time“. “Medvedev singled out the same issues on which Putin […] had repeatedly taken the United States and Europeans to task.”