Washington Post: Russia’s ugly treatment of Americans
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin before their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 14, 2016.
Recent interactions between the United States and Russia are a study in, well, incongruity. Thursday night, Secretary of State John F. Kerry hastened from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin bearing the Obama administration's latest proposal for U.S.-Russian military coordination against al Qaeda-linked guerrillas battling the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. In the days leading up to this meeting, Russia had exhibited its contempt for Washington by harassing U.S. diplomats and expelling Jeff Shell, chairman of the board of a U.S. agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
