Posted on 06/15/2014 6:02:20 AM PDT by McGruff
Senior Russian parliamentarians urged Ukraine on Sunday to sack its foreign minister for calling President Vladimir Putin a "dickhead" during a violent protest outside Russia's embassy in Kiev.
Acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia tried to persuade protesters not to use violence at the rally on Saturday evening, during which the Russian flag was ripped up, vehicles overturned and stones and eggs thrown at the embassy.
"We must fulfill our international obligations, including defending the right of Russia to have an embassy in Ukraine," he told the protesters, angered by pro-Russian separatists shooting down a military cargo plane in east Ukraine, killing 49 people.
But challenged by the protesters, he added: "Did I say that I am against you protesting? I am for you protesting. I am ready to be here with you and say 'Russia, get out of Ukraine'."
"Yes, Putin is a dickhead, yes," he went on to say and the protesters responded by chanting the phrase.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a telephone call with his french counterpart on Sunday, "expressed outrage over the inaction of the Kiev authorities who allowed the rioting outside the Russian embassy," the ministry said in a statement.
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They are fighting back the best they can. Sometimes all you can do is flip em off.
For the time being.
They’re still not Nazis. All over North Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and even in Asia there were people who sided with Nazi Germany because they hated communist oppressors, or the British Empire, or somebody else. There were plenty of Russians who did the same thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army
Medal worthy.
I pinged you my my post got deleted for whatever reason.
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