Moscow calls Obama's team a "bunch of geopolitical losers" engaged in a last-ditch effort to inflict the maximum possible damage to U.S.-Russia ties to make it more difficult for Trump to mend the rift.
MOSCOW
(AP) — With eager anticipation, the Kremlin is counting the days to
Donald Trump's inauguration and venting its anger at Barack Obama's
outgoing administration, no holds barred.
Careful
not to hurt chances for a thaw in U.S.-Russia relations, President
Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have deferred questions about
their plans for future contacts with Trump and any agenda for those
talks until he takes office on Friday.
Trump's
open admiration of Putin has brought wide expectations of improved
Moscow-Washington relations, but Trump has not articulated a clear
Russia policy. His Cabinet nominees include both a retired general with a
hawkish stance on Russia and an oil executive who has done extensive
business in Russia.
At
the same time, Russian officials are blasting the outgoing U.S.
administration in distinctly undiplomatic language, dropping all decorum
after Obama hit Moscow with more sanctions in his final weeks in
office.
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