Spy or not spy, it's time for hamburger! by Barbora Misakova

As it seems United States have not troubles only with China (in Google case) but also with Russia. Shortly after the pictures of Russian President Medvedev and the US President Barack Obama eating hamburgers together fly around the world, new information came up. The news that Russia allegedly has its spies in the USA whose should inform Kremlin about US activities (especially nuclear weapons and foreign policy) appeared so suddenly, that I am more than persuaded that someone wanted to thwart Obama’s attempt of “reset” mutual Russian-American ties. The White House said Obama knew the FBI was closing in on the 11 alleged spies when he met Russian President,! but didn’t want to mention it. Russian condemnation of arrests and launch of damage control operation are persuasive enough for me to believe, that Russia and USA were serious about improving US-Russia ties. As Phil Gordon, assistant secretary of state for European Affairs said about this spy scandal: “We are moving towards a more trusting relationship. We are beyond the Cold War, our relations absolutely demonstrate that.” What is more it seems that “anyone was hugely shocked to know that some vestiges of old attempts to use intelligence are still there.” Putin maintained the same position when he said: “I expect that the positive tendency in relations over the last years is not harmed. We very much hope that people who value good relations understand this.” If these newly interweaved ties resist this and many other tests only investigation and time will show.

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by Barbora Misakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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