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A stand for a fake: US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy’s false statements published by Kommersant
We were bemused and somewhat confused to see the interview US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy gave Kommersant correspondent Yelena Chernenko, published on April 28.
Her first phrase sets the tone
: “Whatever differences we, the United States, have with the Russian government, these are not differences with the people of Russia.” Does Lynne Tracy really thinks that readers are not aware that right this moment Russian military personnel, as well as civilians in Donbass, are being killed by US weapons bought with US money and, apparently, for the US interests?
Lynne Tracy’s interpretation of the 2013-2014 events in Ukraine is striking in its selectivity and outright lies.
Perhaps Madame Ambassador simply does not know, and her assistants did not give her a hint, but this simple "puzzle" clearly lacks... the truth and
the correct sequence of events.
So let us remember
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At the same time, one cannot but
thank the Ambassador for the fact that, from the height of her position, she reluctantly admitted that
“Russia has the right to set its foreign policy priorities.” Jeez, now we can breathe freely, because we were really very worried about this, whether they in the “City upon a Hill” would
allow us to decide issues of national interests ourselves.
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As for Lynne Tracy’s statements about the egregious, ugly situation with the US failure to issue visas to Russian journalists who were supposed to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to New York, they can only be called a mockery.
Everything was done by the American side was done on purpose. Let us quote Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again:
“A country that calls itself the strongest, smartest, free and fair country has chickened out and done something stupid by showing what its sworn assurances about protecting freedom of speech and access to information are really worth.”
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