Obama's gov't expels 35 Russian diplomats - Moscow to take reciprocal steps

Thursday, December 29th 2016 - 22:51 UTC

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The government of the United States Thursday expelled 35 Russian diplomats from Washington and San Francisco, US Department of State said in an official statement. Meanwhile, lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov, who is Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council's (Parliamantary Upper House) warned that “reciprocal steps will be made with regards to the U.S. embassy in Moscow and, quite possibly, the consulates will be cut down in size as well.” In any case, it is believed that this decision “will destroy diplomatic relations” between the two countries, as one Kremlin source put it. Read full article

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Klingon
Obammy is doubling down on being the worst president in US history. Putin has outplayed him time and time again. Putin is not going to do anything until Trump is in the Whitehouse.
Dec 30th, 2016 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Kanye
“Putin has outplayed him time and time again. Putin is not going to do anything until Trump is in the Whitehouse”

That's a good sign that Obama knows what Putin is about.

Putin knows he can get the best of Trump quite easily, as opposed to Trump
Dec 30th, 2016 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Between Putin and Trump; there are a lot of money making opportunities [for themselves]. How is this going to benefit both the countries as well as the rest of the world, is yet to be seen.
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