The truth is there is no reason for high level meetings because there was no progress made to any of the issues facing the two countries. There were treaties to sign or any 'next thing' to do that is left to either President.
The bull-only about Snowden is American propaganda for media pundits.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow (click here) is disappointed by the cancellation of US President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Moscow for a bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Kremlin aide said Wednesday.
The two heads of state were scheduled to hold talks in Moscow ahead of a gathering of the Group of 20 major economies on September 5 in St. Petersburg.
“We are disappointed by the decision made by the US administration to cancel Obama’s visit to Moscow in September,” Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, told reporters.
“It is clear that this decision has been prompted by the situation regarding former US spy agency employee Edward Snowden, [a situation] which was not created by us,” Ushakov said....
The 'tough talk' of the pundits was never heard from either President. Snowden is AGAIN a scapegoat.
I think what Julia Ioffe knows about Russia is more than appropriate. (click here) Her opinions are fairly accurate. Once again Russia is the evil empire. Will the propaganda of the USA ever do without it?
The fight for Gay Rights is everywhere. It is not just in Russia. The incident in St. Petersburg didn't result in a national hunt for homosexuals.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: August 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (click here) plan to meet here in Washington with their Russian counterparts on Friday for a day of talks that could determine the fate of a September summit meeting between President Obama and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin....
The boys haven't been doing their homework and now they have to catch up. Secretary Kerry has had a family emergency and Hagel has been harassed over "The Sequester," so everything that was supposed to be accomplished before President Obama arrived in Russia for the Putin meeting hasn't been addressed. There is no business for either leader to address. They aren't meeting for 'the old days' and reminiscing. These meetings are suppose to be productive.
Quite frankly it has been a standard for some time now to allow Russia to be moved to the back burner while other issues were more pressing. Times up!
The bull-only about Snowden is American propaganda for media pundits.
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow (click here) is disappointed by the cancellation of US President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Moscow for a bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Kremlin aide said Wednesday.
The two heads of state were scheduled to hold talks in Moscow ahead of a gathering of the Group of 20 major economies on September 5 in St. Petersburg.
“We are disappointed by the decision made by the US administration to cancel Obama’s visit to Moscow in September,” Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, told reporters.
“It is clear that this decision has been prompted by the situation regarding former US spy agency employee Edward Snowden, [a situation] which was not created by us,” Ushakov said....
The 'tough talk' of the pundits was never heard from either President. Snowden is AGAIN a scapegoat.
I think what Julia Ioffe knows about Russia is more than appropriate. (click here) Her opinions are fairly accurate. Once again Russia is the evil empire. Will the propaganda of the USA ever do without it?
The fight for Gay Rights is everywhere. It is not just in Russia. The incident in St. Petersburg didn't result in a national hunt for homosexuals.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: August 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (click here) plan to meet here in Washington with their Russian counterparts on Friday for a day of talks that could determine the fate of a September summit meeting between President Obama and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin....
The boys haven't been doing their homework and now they have to catch up. Secretary Kerry has had a family emergency and Hagel has been harassed over "The Sequester," so everything that was supposed to be accomplished before President Obama arrived in Russia for the Putin meeting hasn't been addressed. There is no business for either leader to address. They aren't meeting for 'the old days' and reminiscing. These meetings are suppose to be productive.
Quite frankly it has been a standard for some time now to allow Russia to be moved to the back burner while other issues were more pressing. Times up!
...State Department officials on Tuesday afternoon confirmed the meeting
with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Sergei K.
Shoigu, the defense minister. Jen Psaki, the State Department
spokeswoman, said the four officials would discuss “a number of pressing
bilateral and global issues.”
“There’s a lot to discuss,” Ms. Psaki said. “A lot of issues we work
together on. I expect those to be the thrust of the conversation."
Russian officials sounded a similar theme.
“We expect a very intensive discussion, all the more so because there
are quite a few sharp, controversial and difficult questions,” Sergei
Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, said Tuesday....
There better be very intensive discussions because the people of the USA are flyin' tired of the lack of progress on many fronts including non-proliferation, Syria, Iran and North Korea and hostile parking of missiles at the Russian border.
Edward Snowden is NOT the issue with the problems within the NSA and their intimate relationship with Wall Street. Edward Snowden is a whistleblower. Russia has consented to allow him a space on Earth until more is known about his future. There are many citizens of the USA viewing the NSA program as a problem and Snowden admirable to bring it forward at his own peril.
At least Russia is willing to entertain the safety of a man that is wrongly accused by the USA while Wall Street gets away with it all. The American people don't need any more injustice in their understanding of their country. That is oppression and we are all opposed to it. The politics in the USA have become oppressive and a burden to the people. Real oppression. Fiscal and status oppression of citizens. At least Edward Snowden has relief from the invasive government agenda of the NSA and their Wall Street partners.
