You don't have to trust either one, but it will be a cold day in hell before I trust the Russians over Kerry. It wasn't Kerry who helped the Koreans and the Vietnamese kill 100K GI's during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and helped kick off WWII by giving the Nazis a secure Eastern Front by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop (Russian-German) Non-Aggression Pact. If the Russians said it's a nice day, I'd want to look through a window just to be sure. Remember - the Russians convinced a good chunk of the world that the CIA invented AIDS to kill black people.