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Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia
reuters.com ^ | Dec 4, 2014 | Timothy Heritage and Alexei Anishchuk

Posted on 12/04/2014 3:40:59 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

President Vladimir Putin accused Russia's enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech that seemed to outdo even his own recent strident nationalism.

The Kremlin leader trumpeted his annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, praised the Russian people for their strength, accused the West of "pure cynicism" in Ukraine and said economic sanctions must drive Russians to develop their own economy.

The rouble fell as he spoke

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: putin; putinsotu; ukrainecrisis

1 posted on 12/04/2014 3:40:59 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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President Vladimir Putin accused Russia's enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up
Russia's Chechnya
2 posted on 12/04/2014 3:50:09 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Oh. Kind of like he wants to carve out pieces of Ukraine and the Baltics.
Karma’s a Bitch Vladi....


3 posted on 12/04/2014 3:54:32 AM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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"There is colossal competition for money."

Prostitutes hike prices as rouble falls

4 posted on 12/04/2014 4:12:56 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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"rainy day"
5 posted on 12/04/2014 4:20:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia
Russia isolated through its own actions."
6 posted on 12/04/2014 4:24:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Russia limits American poultry imports
On Wednesday the regulator banned the import of poultry from Germany and cattle from Italy, Hungary and Montenegro over bird flu fears.
7 posted on 12/04/2014 4:28:36 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Ten police officers were killed and 28 others wounded in a counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya’s capital Grozny as they prevented massive terrorist attacks at the expense of their lives, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Thursday.
8 posted on 12/04/2014 4:33:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Saudi Arabia Sees Oil Prices Stabilizing Around $60 a Barrel
9 posted on 12/04/2014 4:42:18 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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‘——They also want to peg the cost of services to the dollar——

Ho, ho, ho........ now that’s funny

The prostitutes of Murmansk have hiked their prices to compensate for loss of buying power of the Ruble. One wag tweeted “”Putin - learn about the economy from the Murmansk prostitutes”

Our next president will be faced with similar devaluation problems as the debt climbs toward $20 trillion


10 posted on 12/04/2014 4:44:41 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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Sad little little man.


11 posted on 12/07/2014 7:25:29 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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