US ambassador tells Russia for not to close the embassy

• President Vladimir Putin has characterised the invasion of Ukraine as a watershed moment in Russian history, describing it as a struggle against US imperialism, which he claims has humiliated Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.Ukraine – and its Western backers – claim they are fighting for survival against a rash imperial-style land grab that has killed thousands of people, displaced more than 10 million people, and turned large swaths of the nation into desolation.
• In a blatant attempt to send a message to the Kremlin, President Donald Trump’s envoy, John J. Sullivan, told Russia’s state news agency TASS that Washington and Moscow should not just terminate diplomatic relations.
• In an interview with TASS, Sullivan said, “We must retain the ability to speak to each other.”
  He warned against removing Leo Tolstoy’s works off Western book shelves or refusing to perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music.
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Despite the crisis generated by the war in Ukraine, Russia should not close the US embassy since the world’s two largest nuclear powers must continue to communicate, the US ambassador to Moscow was cited as saying on Monday.

President Vladimir Putin has characterised the invasion of Ukraine as a watershed moment in Russian history, describing it as a struggle against US imperialism, which he claims has humiliated Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukraine – and its Western backers – claim they are fighting for survival against a rash imperial-style land grab that has killed thousands of people, displaced more than 10 million people, and turned large swaths of the nation into desolation.

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In a blatant attempt to send a message to the Kremlin, President Donald Trump’s envoy, John J. Sullivan, told Russia’s state news agency TASS that Washington and Moscow should not just terminate diplomatic relations.

In an interview with TASS, Sullivan said, “We must retain the ability to speak to each other.” He warned against removing Leo Tolstoy’s works off Western book shelves or refusing to perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music.

TASS reported on his comments in Russian, and Reuters translated them into English.

Despite the Cold War’s crises, spy scandals, and brinkmanship, relations between Moscow and Washington have remained intact since the US established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1933.

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