Russia plans no retaliation for Obama visit cancellation: Kremlin
Source: France 24
AFP - Russia is not planning to retaliate over Barack Obama's cancellation of a visit to Moscow in September for talks with Vladimir Putin and hopes contacts will be resumed, the Kremlin said Friday.
"We have received this calmly and know that sooner or later contacts will be resumed," Putin's top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said, quoted by Russian news agencies. "How would we retaliate? We said we were disappointed but emphasised the invitation remains in force."
Obama is still coming to Saint Petersburg for the September 5-6 G20 summit but Ushakov said no bilateral meeting with Putin is currently planned at this event.
Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20130809-russia-plans-no-retaliation-obama-visit-cancellation-kremlin
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)ConcernedCanuk
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USA get's caught with it's pants down so to speak,
and refuses to talk to the most likely second Superpower about it?
Very mature . . . .
Obama . .
change
hope
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B Stieg
(2,410 posts)You still can't figure out what to do about Quebec. Good thing Rene kicked the bucket back in '85, eh?
ConcernedCanuk
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I live beside THE Superpower,
and I read.
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B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Your post had little to do with your geopolitcal assessments or what you read and is much more revealing in regard to your implications about the President. Funny, but when I lived in Canada, I never knew any crackers from Collingwood or Midland.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)Get all nationalist on him, why don't you?
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)The ridiculous behavior of American presidents is usually a subject of high comedy for the world to witness, but this latest clumsy bombast of arrogance must have the Kremlin boyars in stitches.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)but now he's not.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)During the second half of 2011, the price per seat jumped to $43 million. The price of purchased seats for launches in 2014 and 2015 are $55.6 million and $60 million, respectively. In April 2013, NASA signed another deal with Russia valued at $424 million for six additional seats to carry NASA astronauts to the Station during 2016 through June 2017, and the price per seat has increased to $71 million."
http://www.examiner.com/article/russia-to-extort-triple-their-fee-to-fly-u-s-astronauts-into-space?cid=rss