There was a a RUSSIAN!!! press conference and if I hadn’t been reading this site’s claptrap I’d have never found it. It’s a like like plumbing. Totally disgusting but has to be done if you want to be aware of what’s really going on in the world. One of these days, maybe soon, all the Dims secret squirrel crap is going to come out. This press conference occurred almost a year ago. What are they waiting for?

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 23, 2017

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To tell the truth, over the past few years we’ve seen many strange things happen in Washington in connection with preparations for visits or talks by our foreign ministers. The US Department of State has more than once asked us not to announce planned visits until the last minute. This is not our tradition. We have been operating openly for years, but we have respected the requests we have received from our colleagues in Washington in the past few years. But what happened after that? First, the US Department of State asked us to keep the planned visit quiet and not to announce it until the last possible minute, until we coordinated the date. We did as they asked. But a day or two later the information was leaked by the US State Department and sometimes by the US administration. Frankly, this put Russia and the media in a strange situation, because they didn’t know who to believe – the official agencies or the many leaks.

It is difficult to say if this diplomatic communication is a US tradition or the latest technique. But it definitely doesn’t correspond to our traditions. We believe that everything we coordinate should be made available to the media in accordance with diplomatic procedure. When we coordinate a visit and the date for announcing it, the information should be made public calmly and as agreed. This is what we do in relations with our colleagues from other countries

As I said, such cases in our relations with the US Department of State have become a bad tradition over the past few years. So, I can say in response to your question that we will make the date and format of contacts between the Russian and US foreign ministers public after we coordinate them. We won’t keep them quiet. At this point, I don’t have any information I can share with you. I can say that this visit and such contacts are possible in principle, but it would be premature to talk about timeframes.

Also, I would like to say that if the practice of leaking information that concerns not just the United States but also Russia, which has become a tradition in Washington in the past few years, continues, there will come a day when the media will publish leaks about the things that Washington asked us to keep secret, for example, things that happened during President Obama’s terms in office. Believe me, this could be very interesting information.

Our American colleagues must decide if they respect the diplomatic procedure, if they keep their word on the arrangements made between us, primarily arrangements made at their own request, or we create a few very nice surprises for each other.

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This is why I read EVERYTHING !!! You just never know where nuggets of informational gold are to be found. And after you find them, verify!!

DISCLAIMER: I don’t believe everything in RUSSIA!!! is great, that they DO try to influence elections worldwide, and that they (and all the BRICS countries) would like us to get our much deserved comeuppance for all the harm we’ve caused the rest of the world. But as the mythical ‘they’ say, it is what it is.