Subtropical climate but the fact that the subtropical climate happens to be in the country that actually occupies the most territory in the arctic region is rather an almost as well. Never before has Olympic Games been held in the region in such close proximity to a conflict zone. Never before, although more about this conflict zone never before has Olympic Games been held na conflict, in such close proximity to conflict zone in which was, in fact the site effectively to civil wars in the country that is holding the games. One of which effectively russia lost in the mid 1990s with chechnya and one of which was one, the zone in the northern caucasus they are referring to where my esteemed colleagues will talk at greater length about the challenges you know, when mr. Putin went down to Guatemala City in 2007 it was a period of relative relative quiet since i would say in the area. Chechnya have been somewhat stabilized, and the frequency of violence in the other republics, the northern c
Gone along way. Unfortunately the russian government, vladimir coo and are not famed for this kind of sensitivity towards ethnic minorities. Sergei reminds us in 2010 they went to the vancouver olympics, sending out the wrong signal given that the cossacks associated with the destruction of the native peoples. I dont anticipate, wouldnt anticipate any kind of effort by sarkhasian to disrupt the games. If there is these are islamists, not sarkhasian nationalists. We have seen islamists targeting people with a National Agenda in places like bulgaria in the north caucusus, we have seen a few fascinations of academics who have been trying to portray non islamist identity for the sarkhasians. Just to finally a few extra words about the north caucusus. I should also mention another reason abkhazia is problematic which no one has mentioned so i should mention september 9th the russian vice consul in abkhazia was assassinated, the main suspect is a chechen who was wounded in georgia. That is a
United and russia disagree on the outcome. We actually agree on the outcomes. In each of the case where we disagree where the challenges in both case how you get to the outcomes. Thats where all the diplomacy and the negotiations and the meetings are focused. We agree in iran without a Nuclear Weapons program and a nuclear a Peaceful Nuclear program under appropriate International Law monitoring. We agree on that. We have to different views about how you get to that. We worked out a common approach were now implementing. On syria, similarly we agree we want syria with a government that is answerable, accountable to its own people. We agree that can only be reached ultimately through a political process. Through negotiations and the political process. Question agree we do not want syria to be an environment in which extremism is implemented and able to operate threatening not only the people of syria but also syrias neighbors. Where we struggle to find a common approach in how to get th
Subject to international sanctions, to international controls, and to, in the case of kosovo, concerted nato action pursuant to law. Pursuant to statutes that govern that action. This has none of that. Not even the pretense of it. Other than an action a unilateral action by the Russian Parliament would the gentleman and an action by the parliament in crimea. Would the gentleman yield . I would. Thank you, and i agree with everything that gentleman just said. Let me say to my friend, my colleague from california, who really stood with me and others very valiantly throughout the entire kosovo war in 1999, and has been a strong supporter of human rights. But i disagree with him tremendously in trying to say that theres any kind of analogy between what happened in crimea, to what happened in kosovo. I dont believe that every separatist movement claiming some kind of referendum should be allowed to form either an independent country, or to be part of a power grab. What happened in kosovo wa
President putin insisting his government had nothing to do with any hacking. Translator in theory, it is possible that no hackers will be able to have an impact on the Electoral Campaign in any country. Joining me, nbc news justice contemporary, pete williams. Whats the latest on this . Its a fascinating development. Because an hour after the intercept posted that story you just showed the Justice Department revealed over the weekend it arrested a woman that prosecutors say is the person who gave the document to the intercept. This is the document here. According to court document, the intercept actually called the u. S. Government the National Security agency on may 30th and said, hey, weve got this document, were going to do a story on it. What do you say about it . You will see things on the screen there blacked out. According to the intercept, the nsa asked certain things be redacted before the story was published and the intercept says it agreed to do so. The discovery by the nsa