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Washington mdash;A group of American diplomats returned to the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv for the first time in nearly three months on Sunday, traveling to th stanley cup e Ukrainian capital one day before Russia s Victory Day commemorations, when the country marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Just arrived in Kyiv! Delighted to be back on Victory in Europe Day. Slava Ukraini! We standwithUkraine, Kristina Kvien, the U.S. charges d affair, wrote on the embassy s Twitter account. The U.S. and the West celebrate the end of World War II in Europe on May 8, while Russia and many former Soviet republics recognize May 9 as the end of the war.The U.S. diplomats return to the embassy was meant to underscore Russian President Vladimir stanley polska Putin s failure to capture the Ukrainian capital early in the conflict, which has now transformed into a grinding war of attrition in the country s south and east. State Department sources said the embassy hopes to fully resume operations at the embassy in Kyiv and raise the American flag there in the coming weeks. The move is part of the U.S. effort to counteract Russian propaganda surrounding the conflict, which the U.S. expects to see from the Kremlin on May 9, one U.S. official told CBS News. The Russ stanley cup ians will do everything they can to use the date in terms of their propaganda effort, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters last Monday. I am quite confident you ll be hearing more from the United Sta Qcik Donald Trump reaches out to GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson
AP Some one better check the president s iPod for Bob Seger. Here I am / On the road again / There I am / Up on the stage / Here I go / Playin the star again / There I go / Turn the page is the chorus of the Seger classic Turn the Page and maybe the best ever song written about the pitfalls of life in the spotlight because it applies equally to rock-and-roll and to politics. And maybe President Obama had those lyrics in his head as he spoke from Oval Office last night, the country s grandest stage, and asked the American people to turn their attention from Iraq to Afghanistan and the economy, as he said, Now, it is time to turn the page. After admitting that he had opposed the war from its stanley termosky outset, he said it s time to move on. The greatness of our democracy is grounded in our ability to move beyond our differences, and to learn from our experience as we confront the many challenges ahead. And no challenge is more essential to our securit stanley vaso y than our fight against al Qaeda, Mr. Obama told the public. Because of our drawdown in Iraq, we a cups stanley re now able to apply the resources necessary to go on offense. Obama Hails End of Iraq Combat, Stresses EconomyCan Obama Meet the Next Iraq Deadline Obama Calls Bush Fellow Patriot in Iraq SpeechObama: Most Urgent Task to Restore the EconomyObama s Iraq Speech: Full TextThe president was channeling his campaign pledge, to fight the right war, not in I |
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