As the Obama administration finalizes its preparations for the Obama-Medvedev summit next week, their vaunted “reset” of U.S. relations with Russia is experiencing some technical difficulties.

With negotiators meeting to work on a follow-on agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires at the end of this year, the administration is reportedly exploring all options to assuage Moscow’s concerns about America’s planned foray into its backyard in the form of planned U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.

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