I wonder if it has to do with any war plans.
Putin is an idiot. Obama is an idiot.
What could go wrong?
Obama has no clue because he never attends the daily briefing
Circling the wagons because a Hitlery victory - Armeggedon.
I think he is concerned that theses children studying abroad will become internationalists or globalists with no true loyalty to Russia because they never grew up in Russia. I am guessing that when you look at the percentages of the political class you will find up wards of 40 percent of there kids being educated at private schools outside the country. this is bad for any country because theses kids will hold Russian citizenship but will not self identify as Russian.
Yawn. Big nothing burger here. Typical Putinist psywar games.
Just a thought, contrarian, but if Putin was/is planning a power grab or second communist revolution he’d want this talent back home and more importantly not acting as articulate dissidents criticizing him aboard.
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* Russian officials have been 'told to bring relatives home to the Motherland' * Failure to act will put promotion chances at risk, according to local reports * Comes amid worsening relations between Russia and US over Syria crisis * US has pulled plug on Syria talks and accused Russia of hacking attacks * Russia has moved nuclear-capable missiles nearer to the Polish border
Maybe the administration is trying to threaten the Russians in private, to make them stop releasing hacked emails before the election - and the Russians are calling the bluff with their public actions.
Brinksmanship.
All this over Syria. Seems totally worth it