US accuses Russia of harassing diplomats

[Night Watchman]

Source: CNN

Updated 8:20 PM ET, Mon June 27, 2016
By Elise Labott, CNN

Washington (CNN) Washington has delivered high-level complaints to Moscow about accusations of increasing intimidation of American diplomats in Russia, the State Department said on Monday.

Secretary of State John Kerry last discussed the matter with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 24, according to State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau.

"We see an increase and we take it seriously," she told reporters at a press briefing.

Trudeau said that harassment of diplomats by Russian security agents and traffic police had been an issue over the past two years but did not detail any incidents nor why Kerry brought up the matter with Putin.

Other Western embassies had reported the same behavior toward their diplomats stationed in Moscow, Trudeau added.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/politics/us-accuses-russia-of-harassing-diplomats/index.html

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No shit!

PS: There's a video of Trudeau at the link.

[mwrguy]

1. The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back

because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.

[Night Watchman]

2. Cold War II has been On since Putin was "Reelected" in 2004

Anti-Americanism was the central theme of his campaign that year and in 2012

[Purveyor]

4. I would suggest it really started with the election of "W", the Iraq crusades and NATO expansionism.

[David__77]

6. I think that the US has made Cold War noises at times.

For instance, see: http://www.rferl.org/content/clinton-calls-eurasian-integration-effort-to-resovietize/24791921.html

I'm not sure that either Russia or the US ever stopped many of the Cold War type publicity and activities that occurred prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

[Recursion]

3. Yeah, I wouldn't want a Moscow posting, ever

And it's weird, creepy stuff, like people going into your residence when you're out, taking a dump, and not flushing the toilet.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Oh really?