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“This isn’t time to damage US relationship with Russia” - congresswoman
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“This isn’t time to damage US relationship with Russia” - congresswomanhttp://rt.com/news/start-damage-relationship-congresswoman/ Published: 16 December, 2010, 10:12 US Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky believes ratification of the START deal with Russia is necessary, given the current security challenges the US is facing.
Congresswoman Schakowsky said she was worried about how the ongoing fight between the Republicans and the Democrats threatens the issue of START ratification. “[Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell said that his goal was to defeat Barack Obama. My concern is that that goal, that aim is bleeding over into both domestic and foreign policy. But this is something that should transcend the issue, any of the political issues. This is so important,” Schakowsky continued. “The world is getting smaller. The United States absolutely needs to be part of an international community that looks for areas of agreement that work hard to bring those alliances as broadly as possible together. We still have our troops around the world. Wars continue. We can’t afford to burn any bridges,” she said. Premier Putin to hold his ninth Q & A session with Russians http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15784298&PageNum=0 16.12.2010, 03.55 MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold his ninth annual Q & A session with the people of Russia on Thursday, December 16. A special program titled “A Conversation with Vladimir Putin, Continued” will go on air on the Russia 1 and Russia 24 television channels at midday on Thursday. The Mayak and the Voice of Russia radio stations will also broadcast the program live. The main studio from which the prime minister is going to answer questions will be located in the Gostinyi Dvor building near the Kremlin. The government press service reports that this year the Russians are showing more interest in dialogue with Vladimir Putin than in 2009. “The interest is higher than it was in 2009, though at that time it was also high,” Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Itar-Tass. He added that Putin had already received more than 600,000 questions and that their number kept growing. Peskov said that the most burning issues included salaries, the living standards, housing, pensions and social benefits. “Some questions concerned inter-ethnic strife,” Peskov went on to say. According to him, questions are coming from all sorts of people. Young people usually send SMS messages while the older generation prefers putting questions by phone. Russians also pose their questions on the www.moskva-putin.ru website. The most frequent questions concern changes of retirement age, a possibility of using the maternal capital for children’s medical treatment and employment in one-industry towns. The Russians also worry that the financing of the 2018 World Football Cup will produce a negative impact on the economic and social situation in Russia. Peskov said that Moscow was traditionally leading by the number of questions. Quite unexpectedly, the Krasnodar territory is second, and the Rostov and Moscow regions come third. Putin goes over most questions personally. Citizens will be able to put questions to the prime minister from the studio, by telephone and during live-ins with Russian cities and villages. This year, the residents of the village of Ivanino, the Vladimir region, will be able to talk to Vladimir Putin. Last summer, Ivanino suffered from wildfires. The Russian prime minister was the one who headed a campaign against forest fires in the hot and dry summer of 2010. Putin talked to the fire victims and personally monitored the construction of new homes for them. One of the live-ins will be with Astrakhan, the Volga region. Putin went there in April 2010. He visited an oil platform, chaired a conference on oil industry and saw a surgery unit of the regional clinical hospital. Putin will also be able to talk to the people of Chita where he stopped late in August when he was driving his yellow Lada Kalina Sport car on the Amur highway. The geography of Putin’s “hot line” has always been vast. The southernmost points were Botlikh in Dagestan, Grozny and Kaspiysk; the northernmost locations were Murmansk and Vorkuta, the easternmost were Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Khabarvosk and Vladivostok, and the westernmost were Kaliningrad and Baltiysk. People whom Putin met during his numerous trips across Russia will join him in the studio on Thursday. They include doctors, teachers, workers and servicemen. “They are just ordinary people from regions whom Putin has already met,” Peskov explained. Putin’s Q & A session is expected to last for approximately two hours but it’s likely to be longer as usual. Putin broke record last year. He answered 87 questions in more than four hours. To ask your question, please call 8-800-200-40-40, send an SMS to number 04040 or post it on the www.moskva-putin.ru website. December 16, 2010 09:29 Putin will answer questions from viewers, listeners on Dec 16 live showhttp://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=209573 MOSCOW. Dec 16 (Interfax) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will answer questions from listeners and viewers on a live show on Thursday, December 16. "There will be a special live program 'Talking to Vladimir Putin. Continued' at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time on December 16 on the channels Rossiya, Rossiya 24, Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii," the federal TV channels announced on Sunday. ml mj
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