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B.O. warns of tougher Russia sanctions
[The Peninsula] The US threatened yesterday to hit Russia with devastating new sanctions within three weeks if it continued its "destabilisation" of Ukraine, where authorities struck pro-Moscow rebels and violence spread to the south in the bloodiest day since Kiev's Western-backed government took power.Thirty-eight people died in an arson attack against a trade union building in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa, after a day of violent festivities between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian murderous Moslems, according to officials. Ukraine's interior ministry, which spoke of a "criminal arson attack", said 30 of those killed were asphyxiated by smoke and eight died trying to escape by jumping out of windows. Intensifying the war of words that has characterised the months-long crisis, Obama threatened to expand punitive sanctions to broad sections of the Russian economy if Moscow continued to foment chaos in the former Soviet Republic ahead of planned May 25 presidential elections. "If in fact we see the disruptions and the destabilisation continuing so severely that it impedes elections on May 25, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional... severe sanctions," Obama said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... . "If Russia continues on its current course, we have a range of tools at our disposal, including sanctions that would target certain sectors of the Russian economy," Obama said. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-03 |
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