WORLD BRIEFLY
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Putin: Russia list is
driven by Trump foes
MOSCOW (AP) — Mixing
irony with scorn, President
Vladimir Putin on Thursday
described a new list including
Russian officials and tycoons under
a U.S. sanctions law as a hostile
and “stupid” move spearheaded by
President Donald Trump’s political
foes, but he said the Kremlin will
refrain from retaliation for now.
Putin’s reluctance to criticize
Trump shows that he still hopes for
normalizing ties with Washington.
At the same time, the U.S. move
could help the Russian leader in his
re-election bid in March.
Some observers warn that the
blanket list of 210 names, which
reads like a who’s who in Russian
officialdom and business elite,
could further fuel anti-Western
feelings in Russia and bolster
support for Putin.
Putin immediately struck
that chord, pointing that those
blacklisted by the U.S. control
companies employing millions of
Russians. He cast the U.S. move as
a blow to ordinary people.
“All of us, all 146 million, have
been put on some kind of list,” he
said at a meeting with activists of
his campaign. “Certainly, this is
an unfriendly move, which further
exacerbates the already strained
Russia-US relations and hurts
international relations as a whole.”
The list, ordered by Congress
in response to alleged Russian
meddling in the 2016 U.S.
presidential campaign, had
spooked rich Russians who fear
it could make them informally
blacklisted in the global financial
system.
East Oregonian
Gag order on Afghan
data was a mistake
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an
abrupt reversal, the U.S. military
on Tuesday said it made a mistake
when it ordered an independent
federal auditor to stop providing
the public with information about
U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan
that help to measure how the
16-year-old war is going.
Just hours after the report was
publicly released, the U.S.-led
NATO coalition in Afghanistan
issued a statement blaming “human
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error” for the order, and provided
a few segments of the data that has
been restricted. The newly released
information revealed that 44
percent of Afghanistan is contested
or under the control of insurgents.
Other previously available
information on the size, attrition
and performance of the Afghan
forces continue to be unavailable.
President Donald Trump has
announced a new Afghanistan
strategy aimed at breaking
a battlefield stalemate by
accelerating Afghan-led operations
against the Taliban.
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