Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Ukrainian Military Units Side With Pro-Russian Forces, Crimean Authorities Say

The head of the Ukrainian navy has sworn allegiance to the Crimea region, with the majority of Ukrainian military units on the peninsula expressing support for pro-Russian forces, local authorities have said.

Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky, who was only appointed head of the navy on Saturday, swore allegiance to the Crimea's pro-Russian leaders on Sunday, in the presence of new Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov.

Following his defection, Ukraine has opened a criminal case of treason against Berezovsky and has placed Admiral Serhiy Hayduk in charge of the navy, said Viktoria Syumar, deputy secretary of Ukrainian Security Council, Reuters reported Sunday.

Meanwhile, Crimean authorities said Sunday that most of Ukraine's military units on the peninsula had sided with pro-Russian forces "without a single shot fired," and warned the commanders of a few units that remain loyal to Kiev that they would face criminal action if refused to surrender.

"I would like to warn commanders who force their subordinates to commit illegal actions that they will be punished according to existing laws," Crimea's Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov said in a statement.

The Crimean government said earlier that some 10 warships from the Ukrainian navy left their naval base in Sevastopol apparently on orders from Kiev.

Crimea is now at the center of the ongoing crisis in the country as pro-Russia groups move to distance themselves from a reformed national parliament that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych a week ago.

The current developments come shortly after Russia's upper house of parliament unanimously approved a request from President Vladimir Putin on Saturday to deploy military forces in Ukraine's mainly ethnic Russian-populated region of Crimea.

Putin issued his request in response to what he said was a threat to the lives of Russian citizens and military forces located in naval bases around the Crimean peninsula.

Putin, who is the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, has not yet ordered the deployment of a "limited military contingent" in Ukraine, but said in telephone conversations with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. President Barack Obama early on Sunday that Moscow reserved the right to protect its own interests and those of Russian speakers in the event of violence breaking out in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Source:The Moscow Times
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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Ukraine Appeals to NATO for Help After Russia Approves Force

Ukraine appealed for assistance from NATO on Saturday, asking it to use all possible measures to ensure its territorial integrity and protect its people.

The call came hours after the Federation Council approved the deployment of military forces in Ukraine, in response to what Moscow claims is the threat being leveled against its servicemen and Russian citizens in the southern Crimea Peninsula.

Authorities in Ukraine have sounded the alarm over what they are calling an unwarranted act of aggression.

In addition to asking for NATO's protection, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrei Deshchitsa urged the trans-Atlantic military alliance to aid it in securing nuclear facilities based in Ukraine, local news agency UNN reported.

The North Atlantic Council, NATO's main governing body, was to hold an extraordinary meeting on Sunday to discuss events in Ukraine, the military bloc's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Twitter.

Russia has adopted increasingly combative rhetoric on Ukraine ever since an opposition movement in the country last week toppled President Viktor Yanukovych after weeks of sometimes violent protests.

Moscow accuses the West of backing the Ukrainian uprising, which it says has been directed by violent and politically extremist radicals.

On Saturday, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin expressed the hope that the international community would apply pressure on Kiev to normalize the situation.

In addition to acting as home to Russia's strategically valuable Black Sea Fleet base, Crimea also has a substantial ethnic Russian community.

Politicians in Moscow have urged their government to act firmly on behalf of Russians in Crimea, many of who have apparently expressed a preference for the region to be annexed by their eastern neighbor.

Deshchitsa said a settlement for the situation in Crimea should be peaceful.

"We must not allow the use of force and provocations," he said.

Source:The Moscow Times
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

G7 Condemns Russia for 'Violating' Ukraine's Statehood

Seven countries in the Group of Eight have condemned the eighth member, Russia, for clearly "violating" international law with its military deployment in Ukraine, and they have suspended their participation in preparations for a Russia-hosted G8 summit in June.

Russia's decision to place troops around key buildings and other infrastructure in Crimea on Saturday marked a "clear violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in contravention of Russia's obligations under the UN Charter and its 1997 basing agreement with Ukraine," said a statement signed by the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. as well as the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission.

"We note that Russia's actions in Ukraine also contravene the principles and values on which the G7 and the G8 operate," said the statement published Sunday on the White House website. "As such, we have decided for the time being to suspend our participation in activities associated with the preparation of the scheduled G8 summit in Sochi in June until the environment comes back where the G8 is able to have meaningful discussion."

The statement urged Russia to address any security or human rights concerns that it has with Ukraine through direct negotiations or through a third party such as the United Nations or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

"We stand ready to assist with these efforts," the G7 leaders said.

The Kremlin did respond immediately to the statement.

The signatories also pledged to work with the International Monetary Fund to release much-needed financial aid for cash-strapped Ukraine. An IMF team will visit Ukraine this week to start negotiations on a bailout linked to mandatory market reforms.

On Sunday, the finance ministers of the G7, meeting in Washington. also promised to offer financial aid to Ukraine, saying the transfer of power in the country provided a unique opportunity for urgently needed market reforms.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Sunday that the U.S. and its partners were ready to do whatever they could to help Ukraine recover from its economic turmoil as quickly as possible.

"I have spoken several times to the Ukrainian prime minister, who assures me that the government is prepared to take the necessary steps to build a secure economic foundation, including urgently needed market reforms that will restore financial stability, unleash economic potential, and allow Ukraine's people to better achieve their economic aspirations," Lew said in a speech in Washington.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to fly to Kiev later Monday for a meeting with Ukraine's new leadership on Tuesday.

Source:The Moscow Times
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Russia's Move to Send Troops to Ukraine Spurs Talk of War

Russian lawmakers have given President Vladimir Putin the go-ahead to use Russian troops in Ukraine, a move that has thrown the international community into a tizzy and prompted Ukraine to mobilize its own troops.

The Federation Council's approval of the measure on Saturday has further complicated the Ukraine crisis, which began with mass protests in Kiev in November after then-President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of a trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. Since then, Ukraine has been at the center of a tug-of-war between Russia and the EU but only now has the conflict given way to warnings of World War Three.

After Yanukovych's ouster and the establishment of a new de facto government, Russia has repeatedly expressed concerns for the safety of Russian-speakers in Crimea, saying they face discrimination and possible violence by the hands of nationalists.

It is precisely this concern that Putin cited when seeking lawmakers' approval for military involvement in Ukraine. He asked the upper chamber of parliament to allow him to use Russia's Black Sea Fleet based in southern Ukraine "in connection with extraordinary circumstances that have developed in Ukraine," which pose "a threat to the lives of Russian nationals" and to the Russian troops in Ukraine themselves, the Kremlin website reported.

Putin's concern seemed to be vindicated on Sunday, when Russia's Border Guard Service said it had recorded 675,000 civilians fleeing from Ukraine into Russia in the past two months, 143,000 of those in the past fortnight, Interfax reported.

Putin's request for military involvement came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama issued a stark warning to Russia, saying "the United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine."

Later Saturday, the Federation Council unanimously approved Putin's request, which is mandated by the Russian Constitution, Interfax reported.

While Moscow already has 150,000 troops on high alert near the border with Ukraine, there has been no official word from the Kremlin on the deployment of more troops. Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said on Saturday that a "limited number" of troops may be deployed in addition to the Black Sea Fleet. However, there have been various media reports of armed men patrolling certain areas of Crimea, including airports and a military base, according to The Associated Press.

The latest developments have fueled fears of an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, supported by NATO, but political analysts seemed to agree that the stand-off between pro-Russian and pro-Western forces in Ukraine was not likely to spill over into war.

"So far the conflict is frozen," former Kremlin spin doctor Gleb Pavlovsky said by phone, adding that the Ukrainian opposition in power did not need an armed conflict, a fact which was proven by acting Ukrainian President Olexander Turchynov's veto on Friday of a law that would have abolished Russian as one of Ukraine's two national languages.

Independent opposition-minded political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky said an armed conflict was "a possibility," but that it would in no way benefit Russia.

"It would lead to the collapse of the Russian Federation because Russia would not survive any direct military competition with NATO," Belkovsky said by phone.

Putin discussed the matter with several foreign leaders by phone over the weekend, including Obama. In those conversations, Putin maintained that Russia's intention to defend the Russian-speaking population was in line with the international law, the Kremlin website reported.

Putin also talked to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finnish President Sauli NiinistЪ.

In a separate development in the Ukraine crisis, Russian lawmakers moved to recall Russia's ambassador to the U.S. over remarks made by Obama, signalling a further deterioration in relations.

"When the U.S. president is actually threatening Russia, saying that Russia will pay dearly for it [the introduction of troops], this is disrespect to our people, to Russia, and we think that in these circumstances we have to act accordingly, and we will ask president [Putin] to recall the Russian ambassador to the U.S.," Matviyenko said, Interfax reported.

Ukraine responded to the movement of Russian troops around southern Ukraine by mobilizing its own troops and calling up the reserves.

The country's acting President Olexander Turchynov ordered on Saturday night to put Ukrainian troops "on combat alert," Interfax reported, citing Andrei Paruby, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.

The council also ordered the Foreign Ministry to urgently ask the U.S. and Britain to secure safety in Ukraine and advise Kiev on security issues, Interfax reported.

Separately, on Saturday, Ukriane requested that NATO "consider using all possibilities to protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people and nuclear facilities on Ukrainian territory," Foreign Minister Sergei Deshchiritsya said, Reuters reported.

Analyst Pavlovsky dismissed Turchynsky's call for the mobilization of troops, saying "no mobilization is taking place" because the current Ukrainian government "does not have enough authority to conduct mobilization," he said.

Pavlovsky also stressed that Russia had "not deployed troops to Ukraine," but had used the ones that were already there.

Source:The Moscow Times
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

3 European States Freeze Ukraine Ex-Leaders' Assets

ZURICH — Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein on Friday moved to freeze assets and bank accounts of up to 20 Ukrainians including ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and his son, after Ukraine's new rulers said billions had gone missing.

The three countries did not say how much money was affected by the asset freezes. The European Union agreed to similar measures earlier last month but they have yet to come into force.

Ukraine's new prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, on Thursday accused Yanukovych of stripping state coffers bare and said $37 billion of credits had disappeared. In the past three years, $70 billion had disappeared into offshore accounts, he said.

The Swiss government ordered the freezing of the assets of 20 Ukrainians, including the fugitive president and his son Oleksander, the Swiss financial markets authority, FINMA, said.

Swiss authorities said the asset freeze would come into force on Friday at noon.

The prosecutor's office in Geneva said it had also launched a money laundering investigation against Yanukovych and his son.

"A penal investigation for severe money laundering is currently being conducted in Geneva against Viktor Yanukovych and his son Oleksander," a statement said.

It said prosecutor Yves Bertossa and the police had searched the office of a company owned by Oleksander Yanukovych on Thursday morning and seized some documents.

Switzerland said Thursday that it would order banks to freeze any funds in Swiss banks found to be linked to any Yanukovych fund.

Austria said it would freeze the bank accounts of 18 Ukrainians as a precautionary measure until EU sanctions entered into force.

"Austria has decided to freeze possible bank accounts and assets of 18 Ukrainian citizens in Austria. This has been done on the basis of an official request by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry," the foreign Ministry in Vienna said.

After Ukraine suffered its bloodiest day since the Soviet era in protests that led to Yanukovych's overthrow last week, the EU agreed to impose sanctions such as visa bans and asset freezes on unnamed senior Ukrainian officials.

Austria said it would freeze accounts via a central bank decree under its foreign currency law. It did not identify the people affected or say how much wealth was seized.

"The decree from the National Bank provides the appropriate legal basis to be able to determine which assets are actually in Austria and to prevent potential abuse," Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz told the Austria Press Agency.

The EU cannot unilaterally tell banks to freeze assets without a legal decision agreed among all member states.

Ukraine's acting prosecutor general said Wednesday that the country would ask international organizations to help trace bank accounts and assets controlled by Yanukovych and his allies.

Austria's FMA markets watchdog has already warned banks to be vigilant about dealing with customers from Ukraine.

Liechtenstein will freeze the assets of 20 members of the former Ukrainian government including Yanukovych, a senior Liechtenstein government source said.

In London, the Foreign Office said it was still working with EU partners on implementing sanctions after they were agreed upon on in mid-February. They have not named any individuals they will sanction yet.

Italy will take punitive measures if and when adopted by the EU, foreign ministry spokesmen Aldo Amati said.


Source:The Moscow Times
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Russian-Ukrainian border likely to be closed

Due to "support troops," which, as the new Ukrainian authorities believe, travel from the Russian Federation, the Russian-Ukrainian border can be closed.

The question to either block the border between Ukraine and Russia or impose restrictions for crossing it was raised by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Yarema.

According to him, the people for pro-Russian meetings arrive from the Russian Federation. Residents of the Belgorod region of Russia took part in the beating of Euromaidan activists in the city of Kharkov, Yarema said.


Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin stated that the new Ukrainian government is focused exclusively on the nationalist vector, while Russia wants to avoid both war actions and violation of sovereignty of a foreign state.

Source:Pravda.Ru
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Western nations scramble to contain fallout of Ukraine crisis

EU leaders worry about country fracturing into pro and anti-Russian factions in aftermath of Viktor Yanukovych's ousting
Anti government protest in Ukraine
A portrait of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is seen during a rally on Independence Square in Kiev on Sunday. Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Shaun Walker in Kiev

Western governments are scrambling to contain the fallout from Ukraine's weekend revolution, pledging money, support and possible EU membership, while anxiously eyeing the response of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, whose protégé has effectively been ousted.

As the big international loser of the three-month drama's denouement, the Kremlin has the potential to create the most mischief because of Ukraine's closeness, its pro-Russian affinities in the east and south, and the country's dependence on Russian energy supplies.

With the whereabouts of President Viktor Yanukovych still uncertain, the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday went about legalizing his downfall, giving interim presidential powers to an ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister who was released from jail on Saturday. Oleksandr Turchinov said the parliament should work to elect a government of national unity by Tuesday, ahead of elections that are planned for 25 May.

Yanukovych appeared on television from an undisclosed location on Saturday night, claiming he was still president and comparing the protesters to Nazis, but he continued to haemorrhage support on Sunday; even the leader of his parliamentary faction said he had "betrayed" Ukraine, and given "criminal orders".

A woman pays her respects at a memorial to anti-government protesters in Kiev, Ukraine
 A woman pays her respects at a memorial to killed anti-government protesters in Kiev.

Western leaders, while welcoming the unexpected turn of events in Kiev, are worried about the country fracturing into a pro-Russian and pro-western conflict. They are certain to push for a new government that is as inclusive as possible to replace the collapsed and discredited administration of Yanukovych, who vanished within hours of signing EU-mediated settlement terms with opposition leaders on Friday.

Maintaining the fragile country's territorial integrity swiftly emerged as the paramount concern in the west. "France, together with its European partners, calls for the preservation of the country's unity and integrity and for people to refrain from violence," said Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, echoing the key western worry that Kiev and western Ukraine could be pitted against the Russophone east and south.

Putin, busy at the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, has not yet commented publicly on the violence of the last week and Yanukovych's flight from the capital. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany phoned him on Sunday to press for assurances on Russia's reaction. Susan Rice, national security adviser to the US president, Barack Obama, warned that Moscow would be making a "grave mistake" if it sent military aid to Ukraine.

"There are many dangers," said William Hague, the UK foreign secretary. "We don't know, of course, what Russia's next reaction will be. Any external duress on Ukraine, any more than we've seen in recent weeks … it really would not be in the interests of Russia to do any such thing."

Whether such nightmares are realized will hinge largely on the Kremlin's position and policies. Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, has called the protesters on Independence Square "pogromists", but it appears that Moscow is grudgingly coming to terms with the new reality. In a phone call with the US secretary of state John Kerry on Sunday, he accused the opposition of seizing power and failing to abide by the peace deal thrashed out on Friday.

People and protesters roam the garden in front of the mansion of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
 Protesters roam the garden in front of the mansion of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's home in Mezhygirya, near Kiev.
Analysts say Yanukovych, disgraced as he is, no longer holds any use for the Kremlin, but how the Russians will react on the ground is still an open question. This also partly depends on how the new Ukrainian government behaves. One of the first issues the parliament tackled this weekend was that of the language, annulling a bill that provided for Russian to be used as a second official language in regions with large Russian-speaking populations. If the new government also looks to end the lease of a Black Sea naval base by the Russian military, the response from Moscow could be more aggressive.

"It will definitely depend on how the new government behaves," said Vladimir Zharikin, a Moscow-based analyst. "If they continue with these revolutionary excesses then certainly, that could push other parts of the country towards separatist feelings. Let's hope that doesn't happen."

In Kiev, the barricades around Independence Square remained in place, though the lines of riot police facing off against them had long evaporated. Thousands of people of all ages came to the barricades to pay their respects to the 77 people who died last week, in the bloody clashes that eventually led to Yanukovych fleeing.

As the third of three official days of mourning came to an end, priests continued to sing laments from the stage in the square. Between the soot-black pavements and the slate-grey sky, there were splashes of bright colour as thousands brought bunches of flowers to lay at makeshift memorials to the dead.

At Yanukovych's residence outside Kiev, a team of investigative journalists went to work on a trove of documents fished from the water; the president's minders had apparently tried unsuccessfully to destroy them before fleeing. Thousands of people again came to see the vast, luxurious compound with their own eyes.

Tymoshenko, who has her eyes on the presidency, met the US and EU ambassadors in Kiev. She was released from prison on Saturday and went straight to Independence Square, where she promised to fight for a free Ukraine. Nonetheless, there was ambivalence about the former prime minister among the protesters, with many feeling that she represents the divisive and corrupt politics of the past.

There was no clear central authority in Kiev on Sunday, with the city patrolled by a self-proclaimed "defence force", comprised of groups of men wearing helmets and carrying baseball bats. Nevertheless, the mood is orderly and peaceful, and the protest representatives have been meeting with the police and security services in an attempt to restore a feeling of normality to the capital.

With the country about to turn a new leaf in its history, for the first time since the crisis erupted in November, senior EU officials spoke of the possibility of Ukraine joining the European Union which, if serious, would represent a major policy shift.

"We are at a historical juncture and Europe needs to live up to its historical moment and be able to provide Ukraine with an accession perspective in the medium-to-long term – if Ukraine can meet the conditions of accession," said the economics commissioner, Olli Rehn, at a G-20 meeting in Australia.

Until now, Brussels' policy towards Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, known as the eastern partnership, has been expressly intended as a substitute for rather than a step towards EU membership. It was the EU deal, Yanukovych's rejection of political and trade pacts with the bloc in favor of cheap loans and energy from Russia, that sparked the conflict and crisis in November.

With the likelihood of Russia's $15bn (£9bn) lifeline also dissolving, the EU was under pressure to come up with funding to shore up an economy on the brink of bankruptcy. "We are ready to engage in substantial financial assistance for Ukraine once a political solution, based on democratic principles, is finalized and once there is a new government which is genuinely and seriously engaged in institutional and economic reforms," said Rehn.

The EU said its foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, would travel to Ukraine on Monday. "In Kiev she is expected to meet key stakeholders and discuss the support of the European Union for a lasting solution to the political crisis and measures to stabilize the economic situation," an EU statement said.

The likelihood was of an International Monetary Fund programme, supported by the US and the EU, although EU officials partly blame the IMF for the November fiasco by attaching strict terms to loans and prodding Yanukovych towards Moscow.

"We will be ready to engage, ready to help," said Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief who is also being tipped as a contender for a job at the top of the EU this year. But the IMF will insist on major reforms and steps to arrest the routine plunder of the country by Ukraine's oligarchs in cahoots with the politicians.

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Heritage Takes the Message of Economic Freedom to Ukraine

The Heritage Foundation sought to bring a small measure of encouragement to Ukrainians this week as they continue their months-long protests for democratic and market reforms in the streets of Kyiv and throughout Ukraine.
At a presentation sponsored by the U.S.–Ukraine Business Council and the Bleyzer Foundation on February 13, Heritage analysts reviewed Ukraine’s economic freedom scores in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom and urged the adoption of reforms by the Ukrainian government.
Although there have been some improvements in Ukraine’s economic freedom performance since the Index began in 1995, the country’s score of just 49.3 means that its economy remains in the bottom Index category “repressed.” Ukraine is the 155th freest out of 178 countries ranked in 2014 and is last among the 43 countries measured in the European region.
Heritage analysts noted that the protest movement in Ukraine is about more than just local politics and Russian political interference it is also a cry by the Ukrainian people for economic freedom. Ukraine has lost many of the gains it enjoyed after the fall of communism two decades ago, but even the modest improvements in economic freedom in recent years has whetted the appetites of Ukrainians for more.
Also featured at the February 13 Heritage event was Oksana Kuziakiv from the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in Kyiv. Kuziakiv reviewed her recently published study on the key impediments of business development in Ukraine. She noted that increased regulatory pressure, on top of economic uncertainty due to political unrest, has had a very negative effect in investment and economic growth in Ukraine.
Over the 20-year history of the Index, Ukraine’s economic freedom score has advanced by over nine points with gains in half of the 10 freedom indicators, including better monetary stability and greater openness to global trade. Since President Viktor Yanukovych took office in 2010, however, the country has registered steadily deteriorating scores on property rights, corruption, financial freedom, and investment freedom.
As Heritage Vice President Jim Carafano notes, the period of maximum danger for Ukraine will begin the moment the Olympic torch in Sochi is snuffed out. That is when Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to give the all-clear signal to his buddy Yanukovych to start up the rough stuff again with the protesters. And that is why the message of economic freedom is so important today.

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

“F*** the EU”: Top State Dep’t official’s phone call to U.S. ambassador in Ukraine leaked online

The Real ConservativeComments
The appearing, disappearing, reapperaring thread.
Bitter Clinger on February 6, 2014 at 3:43 PM
Nothing a reset button won’t fix!
ledbylight on February 6, 2014 at 3:43 PM
Something tells me that we shouldn’t be surprised that people are trying to spy on our communications. After all, we were doing this to our allies, weren’t we?
Ryderz on February 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM
I blame a rogue NSA agent who recorded the call.
Chris of Rights on February 6, 2014 at 3:46 PM
Another example of Smart Diplomacy! at the Obama administration
Dr.B on February 6, 2014 at 3:47 PM
I seem to remember the press reacted with condescending hilarity when, during the election, Romney described Russia as our most concerning geopolitical foe.
Just one more propaganda error the press can now confess to having inflicted upon the country.
MTF on February 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM

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