Russia says U.S. treating it like 'guilty schoolboy' over Ukraine

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(Reuters) - The Kremlin on Friday described as unacceptable a U.S. threat to impose sanctions if Russia fails to fulfil its side of an international deal on Ukraine, accusing the White House of treating Moscow like a "guilty schoolboy".

President Barack Obama said Thursday's deal in Geneva between Russia, Ukraine and Western powers to reduce tensions in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine was promising but that Washington and its allies were prepared to impose more sanctions on Russia if the situation fails to improve.

"Statements like those made at a high level in Washington that the United States will follow in detail how Russia fulfils its obligations ... are unlikely to help dialogue," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said.

"You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework," Peskov said in an interview with Russia's First Channel. "That kind of language is unacceptable."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/18/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-accord-idUSBREA3H0PO20140418

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1. Funny how they describe their perceived behavior. (nt)

[treestar]

8. Yes. They said it themselves!

[malaise]

2. I agree

but that is how they speak to everyone.
Then we wonder why there are so many bullies in the schools.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Here is some anti gay stuff said by the head of RT, just for you.

What do you think this sort of speech leads to? Do you approve of it?
"I think that just imposing fines on gays for homosexual propaganda among teenagers is not enough. They should be banned from donating blood, sperm. And their hearts, in case of the automobile accident, should be buried in the ground or burned as unsuitable for the continuation of life.....We have this problem with homosexuals in that they behave provocatively, they behave like victims, and yes, that is certainly encouraging, provoking a situation that they are victims. No one's hindering them from loving each other as much as they want. They are aggressively imposing their minority values on the majority. So sure, society will oppose it. Naturally, right? In various, including brutal forms."
Dimitri Kisilev , Deputy General Director of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and anchor of Russia's number one news show.

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5. I don't support that crap either n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Fuck their stupid paranoid behavior and sense of inferiority.

Nothing has changed in the psyche of Russian elites and governments for millennia. Not even Communism has made a dent. Same shit, different governments.

Buncha white mongrels.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. A thousand editorial cartoonists rejoice

They can pretty much phone in their next piece.

[Igel]

7. Enough threads link the "Donetsk Republic" folk back across the border.

If you snip those threads, it would make the "Republic" that much harder to hold together.

It doesn't matter if the folk are Russian-backed Berkut, if it's just money, PR, coordination.

I'm still wondering where all the arms handed out in Slov'ansk came from.