We will let you bury yourself

The Moscow Times (what, you don't subscribe?) has an on-line article:

The Kremlin signaled Sunday that it was in no hurry to confirm its participation in an international summit called by U.S. and EU leaders to tackle the global financial crisis over the weekend. The apparent reluctance to join other world leaders came as a senior government official said that unlike in the West, there was no crisis in Russia. A Kremlin spokesman said Russia would only participate in the summit if a convenient date could be agreed upon. "All leaders have very tight schedules," he said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. "So far, a date that would suit everybody has not been found." Few details about the summit have been released, making it too early to say who might represent Russia if it decides to participate, said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
US President George W. Bush on Saturday called for a summit aimed at reforming the international financial system while protecting free markets. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who discussed the summit with Bush at his Camp David retreat on Saturday, suggested holding the summit in New York next month, after the U.S. presidential election.
Moscow's lack of enthusiasm might be linked to lingering resentment that Washington threatened to derail its WTO bid and limit its contacts with the Group of Eight in response to its invasion of Georgia in August. Several Western countries sought to isolate Russia after criticizing it for its actions in preventing Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia from being retaken by Georgian forces.
But the senior government official indicated that Moscow's stance might be linked to a belief in the corridors of power that the financial crisis is largely a Western problem that doesn't involve Russia.