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    Angry Russia launches vicious attack against Americans after just US retaliation

    Shall we stand for this? Congress should immediately DECLARE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA! How would we expect our Russian elected congress to do that though? Republicans are more loyal to Putin than they are to their fellow Americans. Yes, they are nationalists - Russian nationalists.


    Russia Set to Expel 35 U.S. Diplomats in Response to Move by Obama


    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/wo...T.nav=top-news

    MOSCOW — Russia moved on Friday to impose tit-for-tat measures against the United States in the latest crisis in relations between the two countries, with the foreign minister recommending that the country expel 35 American diplomats and close two diplomatic facilities.

    The moves, recommended by the Foreign Ministry, are subject to the approval of President Vladimir V. Putin, but given that they were proposed by the foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in remarks broadcast on national television, they seemed likely to be adopted.

    Mr. Lavrov recommended that 31 American diplomats be expelled from Moscow and four from St. Petersburg. He also recommended the closing of two facilities: a swimming and boating area in Moscow used by diplomats, as well as a warehouse in the southern, industrial part of the Russian capital.

    It was not yet clear if those would be the full extent of the measures, as the United States took a two-pronged approach on Tuesday. But they seemed to be a restrained response reflecting the overall mood in the Russian government — that the Kremlin would wait three weeks for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump and hope that things might improve.

    On Thursday, the Obama administration ordered the expulsion of 35 Russians suspected of being intelligence operatives; imposed sanctions on two of Russia’s leading intelligence services; and penalized four top officers of one of those services, the powerful military intelligence unit known as the G.R.U. because of its efforts to influence the 2016 election.

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    Following the Links From Russian Hackers to the U.S. Election
    The Obama administration announced sanctions against Russia and released a report that states that the Russian government deployed computer hackers to attack the Democratic Party’s computers.


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    United States intelligence agencies have concluded that the G.R.U., with the approval of the Kremlin, ordered the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations, and that the Russian government enabled the publication of the emails it obtained, to benefit Donald J. Trump’s campaign.

    As part of the punishment, the State Department said that it would close two waterfront estates — one in New York, the other in Maryland — that it said were used for Russian intelligence activities. It was not clear, however, whether the two properties were used as a base for the election-related hacking.

    The actions amounted to the strongest American response yet to a state-sponsored cyberattack.

    While vowing that Mr. Putin would decide personally how to respond, his spokesman, Dmitry S. Peskov, said, “We proceed from the premise that these decisions were taken by President Obama, and that in three weeks Donald Trump will be the new head of state.”

    Mr. Lavrov, in making his recommendations, said actions like those taken by the United States could not go unanswered.

    “Of course, we cannot leave such mischievous tricks without a response,” he said. “Reciprocity is the law of diplomacy and of international relations.”

    There was no immediate response from the State Department. Elizabeth K. Trudeau, a spokeswoman, said by phone from Washington that the State Department was studying Mr. Lavrov’s statement and would respond later.

    There is a long history of reciprocal expulsions and other measures between the two countries, even after the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

    While Mr. Obama framed the new American measures as a response to Russian hacking during the election, the expulsion of the Russian diplomats from Washington and San Francisco was described as a response to continued harassment of American diplomats in Russia.

    Mr. Peskov denied that any such harassment takes place, but American diplomats tell a different story. Many travel around Moscow in cars with red diplomatic license plates that start with the number 004, denoting United States Embassy vehicles. That makes them easy targets for traffic stops.

    Embassy employees said they were tailed as they moved around the city, and that sometimes, when they were not at home, agents would enter and move the furniture around, just to show that they have been there.

    Some find it unnerving, others shrug it off as part of the job. One young father said he was just grateful that his children were too small to realize that the family was being followed.

    The country house now barred to American diplomats is in Serebryany Bor, a small park located within the city limits and surrounded by the Moscow River. It boasts some of the best beaches in the city.

    The area is popular with Russia’s wealthy elite as well as with ordinary Muscovites, who come to the park in droves in the summer. Serebryany means “silver pine forest.”
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    In a hideous retaliation Russians invited American children to attend holiday activities at the Kremlin....none were taken hostage...
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