Postcard to U.S. President: Moscow

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Nov 5 - People in Russia send their first wishes to the new U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.

Russians hope for warmer, freindlier relations between Russia and the U.S, and for just international policy under Obama.

(English) ALEXANDER FYODOROV, ENGINEER FROM MOSCOW, SAYING:"Mr.Barack Obama, Mr President, I would like to congratulate you with your victory, I hope that you will be strong enough and powerful enough to provide reforms you've planned, I hope that you will develop peaceful and friendly relations between our two countries."

(Russian) ANDREI KAZAKOV, MLOSCOVITE, SAYING:" I have the only message for him to rule his country in a just way and to conduct a foreign policy in a just way, because it is very important to treat all the worlds' countries objectively, friendly and with respect."

(Russian) ELENA, STUDENT FROM MOSCOW, SAYING:"US policy, no matter wether Republicans Or Democrats are in charge, has been the same for a long time, for the past 100 years. So I wish to Barack Obama to love Russia and do not treat it just as a consumer market."

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