Vladimir Poutine et les limites du lobbying à Washington

Topo intéressant qui démarre sur une anecdote plutôt sympathique autour d'un bras de fer (au sens propre, pas au figuré) entre Vladimir Poutine et un politicien américain. Poutine a-t-il toujours des alliés à Washington?

 "This is as good as it gets for Vladimir Putin in today’s Washington. At a time of worsening tensions, escalating sanctions and a crashing Moscow market, when, more than ever, the Russian leader could stand to have a few friends in the American capital, his old arm-wrasslin’ buddy, a man viewed by many as colorfully erratic, may be the best ally he has.

" Or he may be the only one. To Putin and his embattled regime, that’s increasingly how it looks. Amid December’s Russian ruble collapse, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov openly blamed Washington for his country’s troubles, saying there were “very serious reasons to believe” that the United States is pursuing a regime change strategy to topple Putin—aided and abetted by Rohrabacher’s colleagues on Capitol Hill. “If you look at the U.S. Congress,” Lavrov said, “eighty percent of them have never left the USA, so I’m not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/putins-washington-113894.html?hp=t1_r#.VKweMSuG_Ak