Russia plans no retaliation for Obama visit cancellation: Kremlin

[dipsydoodle]

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]

1. Nice to have at least some 'adults' in charge of worldly affairs. eom

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Well ain't that just dandy . .

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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]

3. And what, pray tell, would a Canadian know about being a superpower?

You still can't figure out what to do about Quebec. Good thing Rene kicked the bucket back in '85, eh?

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Umm - 2 things come to mind

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I live beside THE Superpower,

and I read.

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[B Stieg]

9. So, you can see it from your house?

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]

6. Tasteful. /nt

[bitchkitty]

8. Jesus Fucking Christ!

Get all nationalist on him, why don't you?

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. Does "a hardy gut-laugh" count as retaliation?

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]

7. They should say that Putin was going to visit Disneyland,

but now he's not.

[jakeXT]

10. Some are already citing space fees

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