U.S. Congressman Compares Putin to Popeye Sailorman
Foreign Affairs Committees of Russia’s State Duma and U.S. Congress will hold a joint session in Washington tomorrow, June 21, 2007. In this respect, the recent interview that a senior U.S. lawmaker Tom Lantos gave Reuters appears very illustrative.
"They're eating the spinach of petroleum revenues, and the billions are flowing into the Kremlin, and with every billion ... Putin's muscles bulge more powerfully," Tom Lantos, who chairs the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said, having actually compared Russia’s president to Popeye Sailorman.
According to the ardent critic of the Kremlin, Moscow is acting as if its vast energy reserves really enabled it to establish control over Europe. At the same time, Lantos thinks there is some hope. "I am convinced that when this euphoria of energy revenues will be taken more routinely, the Kremlin leadership will understand that their future lies with cooperation with the United States and Europe in a mutually respectful and civilized fashion," Lantos said.
Predictably, Russia’s counterpart of Tom Lantos, Konstantin Kosachev, who chairs State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, couldn’t have ignored this very respectful and civilized comparison of senior congressman. “Lantos is violating the common political ethics. I think such statements are inadmissible in our relations,” Kosachev emphasized.
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