Sanctioned Russian Officials Tell ‘Comrade Obama’ to Get Bent on Twitter
by
Evan McMurry | 1:10 pm, March 17th, 2014 NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH
Russian politicians are not taking the United States’ newly-imposed sanctions lying down.
Actually, they might have been lying down when they tweeted this stuff. After the Obama administration
announced sanctions on eleven major Russian and Crimean officials, including several high-ranking Putin officials, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Dmitry Rogozin thumbed his nose at the new restrictions imposed on him:
Dmitry Rogozin @DRogozin 14h
Comrade @BarackObama, what should do those who have neither accounts nor property abroad? Or U didn't think about it?)http://bit.ly/1ebMXDM
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Meanwhile, Crimean Prime Minister
Sergey Aksyonov, aka “
Putin’s Man in Crimea,” tweeted this political cartoon, along with a warning that roughly translates to “We are not afraid”:
Next Aksyonov tweeted out a picture of Obama’s head photoshopped on a military officer’s body, along with a jab that has been translated as “I wonder if Barack will be promoted to colonel after the successful campaign to return Crimea?”
[h/t
Talking Points Memo]
[Image via Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti]
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So the prime minister of Crimea has a sense of humor — and he unleashed it at the
White House on Monday, sending out a mocking Photoshopped photograph of President Obama wearing a Russian military uniform.
And the accompanying translated text — take or leave a couple of pronouns — that’s attributed from
Sergey Aksyonov, as reported by The Huffington Post:
“Interestingly, after the success of the company in returning Crimea, Barack is getting the rank of colonel?”
The mocking comes as the vast majority of Crimeans voted to join
Russia. The
White House, which is in strong opposition of the vote, issued sanctions on Monday.
Yet Crimea does not seem to care.
“We are going
home. Crimea is in
Russia,”
Mr. Aksyonov said to the crowds of voters who were celebrating their victory in Lenin Square, CNN reported.
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