After months of imposing new sanctions against Russia, US diplomats reacted with shock and outrage after Russia imposed retaliatory sanctions against them over the weekend, calling the retaliation “uncalled for”
and threatening further retaliation to that.
Russia announced Friday that the US Embassy in Moscow will be limited to 455 employees in the future, and that they will be seizing a pair of properties owned by the embassy. These echo seizures and expulsions the US did to Russia back in December.
Though the embassy properties aren’t to be seized until September 1, the US Embassy claimed that Russia had locked them out of the dacha along the Moscow River today.
The Russian Foreign Ministry insisted that the US isn’t really “locked out” of the site yet, but that the embassy had sent trucks to the site without getting prior permission, which they would need since the property is inside a conservation area.
The dacha is primarily a recreation area for embassy staff, used for weekends outside the city and for parties. This was the same as the two sites the US seized back in December, which were both primarily recreational areas for Russia’s embassy staff.
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Typical hypocritical response. Snowflakes!
What do these ZioCON/Communist controlled A-holes in Congress expect?
You realise that the liberal morons you are referring to pretend that Russia is Communist?
Exactly .. Putin his set Russia free of the Communist grip and the USA is falling victim to it today.
Exactly. Vladimir Putin set Russia free of both the Communist and Oligarchical grip and the US is falling victim to them today. I agree 100% .. If Trump had the courage Putin had when he banned DUAL CITIZENS from the Russian Gov’t., the US might have a chance .. However, it’s looking like the Trotskyites control Trump and he’ll attack Iran and initiated WW 3 for them.
It was during Boris Yeltsin’s tenure as President of the Russian Federation that the Oligarchs plundered the country’s Treasury of all its wealth and left the people to starve. Yeltsin was both incompetent and an alcoholic and the Oligarchs exploited those weaknesses.
It was Putin who kicked those Oligarchs from power and turned the Russian Federation around to the superpower it is today. He revived Orthodox Christianity, as well as overhauling the ground, air and naval forces to the best in the world (and its weapons systems as well).
Actually the liberal morons would like Russia if it were still Communist.
The US cries out in pain as it strikes you. Sounds familiar…..
A rapist screams for justice after the person he rapes scratches him…
The American spies are fortunate to still be alive. The gloves are coming off soon.
If Russia is so awful, why do we have well over 1,000 people working there, especially when we have been sanctioning Russia, trying to destroy its economy? Putin should kick out all Americans.
Putin should tell another 50 to go home.
American government thugs: “Do as I say, not as I do.” They’re all due for a big comeuppance.
No the Russian properties in the US were bought in the late 1940s, but the properties in Moscow are leased not purchased. The Embassy has a lease until 2049 but it is my understanding that the other properties were basically free to use to the US.
The storage and recreational properties had to be vacated by 1 August and the people have until 1 Sep to leave.
Simple facts that you got wrong, how can I believe anything from Ditz?