The State Department has reportedly formally protested to the Russian government related to reports that a pair of US diplomats were drugged last year during a UN conference in St. Petersberg, Russia. The department said they’d raised the concern “at the highest levels.”
The claim is related to a story on the US government-funded Radio Free Europe website. Radio Free Europe was created wholly to broadcast anti-Russian propaganda during the Cold War, and has continued to some extent with that task. They have a history of claims of dubious validity.
The story in question claimed two diplomats were slipped what is believed to be a “date rape drug” at a bar in their hotel. The US government concedes they were unable to acquire any evidence that this ever happened, having no proper tissue samples for the putative victims. Russian officials insisted there was nothing they could do without at least some evidence.
Which somehow has become a diplomatic incident, almost a year after it happened, as tensions are now rising with Russia, and the Russian government’s withdrawal from nuclear agreements is somehow being tangentially tied to the putative drugging of two low-ranking US diplomatic officials at an anti-corruption meeting, for which no good evidence exists that anything even happened, let alone that it was the Russian government’s doing.
They probably just got super drunk and used this as a weak excuse… If this incident really happened at all.
Yea…thats what American diplomats do get drunk and go wild in Russia.Well people now you see it for yourselves how Russia operates but what do you expect from a country that seized the assets of the richest man in Russia and gives his company to the government a country that has it’s former Prime minister killed a country that has a leader with a small man complex that desperately wants to be recognized by the world as a super power status a country who’s dependent on the price of oil for half it’s economies GDP…Enjoy making this WEAK administration look foolish Vladimir you better pray it’s not Trump who wins he’s just like you an ego-maniac with thin skin and a small man complex…These are crazy times…
Small man complex at 6’2″…?????
You did read the no evidence part right? lol…the trolls just keep getting more ridiculous
Yea like there gna tell the truth what did they say about the Buk missels that shot down that passenger jet out of the sky over Ukraine that you could buy lots of weapons on the black market and even if that was true you’d have to know how to use that type of sophisticated missile system…
The plane appears to have been shot down by a Buk missile.
The Russians have Buk missiles.
The former Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have Buk missiles.
The Ukrainian forces have Buk missiles.
Did the Russians shoot down the plane? Maybe. But it being shot down by a Buk missile is not evidence that the Russians shot down the plane.
If the Ukrainian military fighting the pro Russian separatist had those missiles why don’t they shoot down Russian jets that are invading there airspace??? People I know you hate America so much you’ll believe the nonsense this website peddles but if i’m not mistaken didn’t this same site have a story where the majority of the world’s nations acknowledged it was done in Pro Russian separatists controlled area. …Its your world I’m just living in it….
ya and who in ukraine would ever know how to use a 30 year old soviet weapons?
its not like ukraine was a part of the soviet union or anything right?
you do know the undercover cia agents who were secretly trying to kidnap someone in Italy, stayed at the fanciest hotel and used their real names, and where out parting and drawing tons of attention to themselves.
also read up on the story about the diplomats in the greenzone, they did nothing but booze all night.
How many times must the little boy cry, “Wolf!” before you become suspicious? You’ve been told verified lies about U-2 flights, the Gulf of Tonkin, Kuwaiti incubator babies, weapons of mass destruction and countless other lies that independent experts and journalists have uncovered, and you still believe Putin would kill a totally discredited rival who had the support of 5% of the Russian people? You’re right, these are crazy times.
Why do they need tissue samples? This could be tested using a standard urine drug screen?
Meanwhile, Russia protests Seward’s fraudulent claim that Alaska was worthless wilderness and of no use to the Czar.