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Exclusive: Putin Halts All Talks With White House
Daily Beast ^ | 4/25/14 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 04/25/2014 12:58:14 PM PDT by Nachum

As new U.S. sanctions against Russia loom, the Kremlin has shut down—at least for now—intensive high level communications between top U.S. and Russian officials.

Since the invasion of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama have had regular phone calls in an often half-hearted attempt to deescalate the ongoing crisis inside Ukraine. But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. The Kremlin has ended high-level contact with the Obama administration, according to diplomatic officials and sources close to the Russian leadership. The move signals an end to the diplomacy, for now.

“Putin will not talk to Obama under pressure,” said Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Institute for Contemporary Development, a prominent Moscow think tank, and a close associate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “It does not mean forever.”

Obama and Putin last spoke over the phone on April 14, a call that the White House said was initiated at Moscow’s request. Obama urged Putin in the call to end Kremlin support for armed, pro-Russian activists creating unrest in eastern Ukraine. Obama also warned that the U.S. would impose more “costs” on Russia if Putin continued his current course. According to the Kremlin’s readout of the call, Putin denied Russian interference in eastern Ukraine and said “that such speculations are based on inaccurate information.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: halts; momjeans; obama; obamaputin; obamaukraine; putin; putinukraine; russia; talks; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; white
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To: Nachum

Putin had better not push Obama too far. Obama probably has a crack team of Occupy activists ready to set up a drum circle in front of the Russian embassy on a minute’s notice. Asymmetrical warfare — think Putin is ready for that?


21 posted on 04/25/2014 1:39:43 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

No no no, even worse, Obama is going to enroll Putin in ObamaCare.


22 posted on 04/25/2014 1:40:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

When is Obama going to play the race card?


23 posted on 04/25/2014 1:42:55 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: FatherofFive

LOL!


24 posted on 04/25/2014 1:45:15 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: dfwgator

That would be a warcrime


25 posted on 04/25/2014 1:46:51 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: glorgau

Wait a minute. I LOVE AC/DC.
Oh yeah, that band, “Bam, Jerry, and the Holders”; I don’t like that group.


26 posted on 04/25/2014 1:46:55 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Nachum

Texas is about to do the same thing....
Texas reset.


27 posted on 04/25/2014 1:47:16 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
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28 posted on 04/25/2014 1:50:45 PM PDT by lonevoice (We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
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To: Nachum

Not that I’m a Romney fan but he was laughed at by the democrats and media when he suggested during the campaign that Russia was our biggest potential threat.


29 posted on 04/25/2014 1:56:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Nachum

Related. Part of this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3148666/posts


30 posted on 04/25/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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To: Nachum

Dear Mr. Putin,

One Request.

If you decide to EMP us, please instead of detonating one Giant EMP device over Kansas, please instead detonate two smaller deivces, one between Washington D.C. and NYC, and the other Between LA and SanFranSicko.

Thanks.

Signed the Heartland.

P.S. I recommend not trying to invade us after doing this.

(the above post is dripping in sarcasm)


31 posted on 04/25/2014 1:58:04 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: kidd

The Bushies are no better because they have no strategy for victory, the GOPe containment policy is the same.

It was used in Iraq when the Iranians set IED’s in to kill our soliders in the Bush years.

NO RESPONSE TO IRAN OF A MILITARY NATURE, JUST THE STUPID TALKING THAT OBAMA HAS CONTINUED TO NOWHERE WHILE THEY DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS....


32 posted on 04/25/2014 2:06:23 PM PDT by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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To: liberalh8ter

Yes. Has anyone else at anytime simply hung up the phone on an American POTUS? I can’t think of any, even in wartime.


33 posted on 04/25/2014 2:13:15 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Mariner

If it were only that. We are not content to pry. We leave carnage.


34 posted on 04/25/2014 2:15:08 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Nachum

This is exactly what Republicans, if they really did care about America, should have done. With O and the media.


35 posted on 04/25/2014 2:19:47 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Nachum
No surprise here. Who wants to waste their time talking to a bunch of arrogant,elitist,sanctimonious buffoons.
36 posted on 04/25/2014 2:22:59 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: Nachum

37 posted on 04/25/2014 2:37:20 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Rebelbase

I seem to remember this clever quote from Obama during one of the debates with Romney “Hello the 1980’s are calling and they want their foreign policy back”


38 posted on 04/25/2014 2:40:40 PM PDT by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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To: Nachum
president crayøn
             




(even a mocking slam on the traitør triggers the gag reflex)

39 posted on 04/25/2014 2:43:30 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Nachum

From what I have been seeing in Russian Media, Kerry’s “Faked Indignation!” speech yesterday REALLY pi***d off the Russians.


40 posted on 04/25/2014 2:57:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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