With Eliot traveling for both business and family celebrations, Eric hosts historian, journalist and novelist Owen Matthews whose new book, Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine, has just been published in the US by Harper Collins. Owen has been a journalist with The Moscow Times and served as…
additional sanctions. these are the sanctions, ronan, that was imposed by the united states unilaterally, energy and banking firms. europe was also considering sanctions and considering less imposing sanctions. this could still be escalated if the situation did not improve. obviously we don t know what happened here other than that 295 souls were tragically killed in some kind of a malaysian airline mishap along the russian border in eastern ukraine. obviously implications for us with foreign travel. 23 americans were on board that flight. and for the region. i want to go to you with that question. we ve seen traffic indicating again, msnbc has not confirmed this stroke talbot from the
meeting with russian president putin. mr. obama still plans to attend the russian-hosted g20 up mitt in st. petersburg. white house taking heat for that decision in an op-ed post the on politico, quote. this is a mistake. of the three options available to him president obama chose the middle one. while seemingly a step in the right direction it gets him the least bang for his buck. better not go to russia at all and go and let the russians and the world hear from obama, rather than jay carney what america thinks, denying putin the political boost he so avidly thinks. a different view emerging with the new york times reporting this. mr. obama s decision received support from republicans and democrats. stroke talbot, deputy secretary of state under bill clinton and president of the brookings institute said, a moscow meeting would have been more happy talk than merited. ambassador john bolton weighing in on at controversy last night