American diplomatic corps in Russia is reduced by two thirds

According to information RIA News, Russian President Vladimir Putin reported a reduction in the staff of US diplomatic missions in the Russian Federation to 755 people. As a result, 455 employees should remain, which is similar to the number of domestic diplomats in the United States.

As for other possible measures or whether this is a lot or a little, from the point of view of the work of the diplomatic department, it is quite sensitive. Because more than a thousand employees - diplomats and technical workers - have worked, are still working in Russia, 755 will have to cease its activities in the Russian Federation. It is sensitive. The question is whether you need or not to do (something) and what set we have. We have a small volume of trade and economic ties with the United States. It doesn’t compare with the volume of trade relations, say, with China, with the countries of the European Union, with many other countries of the world. The possibilities are great, but due to various circumstances the volume is small.

As pointed out in Washington, Moscow’s actions in this direction cause regret and reciprocal steps.

This unjustified measure is regrettable. We assess the impact of such a reduction and how we respond to it. At the moment, no other comments are given.

- Said the representative of the US Foreign Ministry.

Comments

[Megatron]

And where the residency will diminish, in general all these sanctions turn against them, and as we lived, we will continue to live.

[Andrey Yuryevich]

Putin announced a decrease in the staff of US diplomatic missions in Russia by 755 people. As a result, 455 employees should remain, which is similar to the number of domestic diplomats in the United States.

this is parity. otherwise these "diplomats" only prepare the ground for "democracy" ...

[RUSOIVAN]

Now the tree in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses will be half empty!)))

[Roma 1977]

But if you hang Poroshenko on this tree, it can at least somehow brighten up the gray New Year's days.

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Roma-1977

But if you hang Poroshenko on this tree,

A, if also Serdyukov and Vasilyeva, then a full house will be provided for the whole year.

[Roma 1977]

And Chubais instead of an asterisk to plant on top.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Roma-1977

But if you hang Poroshenko on this tree, it can at least somehow brighten up the gray New Year's days.

Like that?

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Nyrobsky

Like that?

About. Have you seen the spruce that the Kremlin puts on NG? The scale is a little different. On its branches will be able to accommodate a lot of characters. Alive, so to speak, not from cardboard. Although, if you look at the root, then they are all made of cardboard.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Polite Elk

Although, if you look at the root, then they are all made of cardboard.

"Cardboard fool" - this is probably about them

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Nyrobsky

"Cardboard fool" - this is probably about them

About them relatives. About whom else?

[Pete mitchell]

Your thought Polite Moose correct: it would be necessary to attach to a tree, not necessarily a Christmas tree, those who "pull the strings" of these cardboard durilok

[hrych]

Quote: Andrey Yurievich

this is parity. otherwise these "diplomats" only prepare the ground for "democracy" ...

It’s like a START treaty, but we must discuss the weight, gender, and sexual identity. And it’s like one floor, but in fact the rear-wheel drive head

[vladfill]

It’s not yet evening, and before September 1 everything can change, at least this one, as it were
the answer does not speak about the consistent actions of the Guarantor and the Russian Foreign Ministry.

[samarin1969]

Quote: vladfill

It’s not yet evening, and before September 1 everything can change, at least this one, as it were
the answer does not speak about the consistent actions of the Guarantor and the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Your truth!
Already "left" from the "Norman format" after the death of our guys at Perekop, etc. .... And what a kaleidoscope of "fellow travelers" in Syria .... It is very unimportant with the sequence of policies in the "RF" ...

[Finches]

I’m now wondering what the Americans will come up with and how far they are willing to go? Trump is tied hand and foot and can’t do anything, even put things in order in his own administration ... That’s what it means when a cook begins to rule the state, there is no experience, there is no base, not even comrades from sensible politicians ...!

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Finches

I’m now wondering what the Americans will come up with and how far they are willing to go? Trump is tied hand and foot and can’t do anything, even put things in order in his own administration ... That’s what it means when a cook begins to rule the state, there is no experience, there is no base, not even comrades from sensible politicians ...!

So Vladimir Ilyich was mistaken?
1. And on the other hand, the result is on the face. He just can’t do it, he can’t save what is beneficial to the USA. Our blow to their diplomatic corps is a blow to the sub. There will be no cookies in the bulk.
2. As additional measures, it is time to introduce restrictions on their missionary and "educational" activities on our territory.
3. Close 4000 NPOs with total funding of 70 billion rubles.
Let only in the USA they jerk, we will find what to answer and without trade restrictions.

[Finches]

Lenin wrote far from this: "We are not utopians. We know that any laborer and any cook are not capable of immediately taking control of the state. In this we agree with the Cadets, and with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. But we differ from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the prejudice that it is to run the state, to carry out the everyday, daily work of the administration, only rich or from rich families officials can take ... " well, and so on in the text (article “Will the Bolsheviks hold state power?” (October 1 (14), 1917). PSS, 5th ed., vol. 34, p. 315. Often cited with distortion in form and content: "Any cook can rule the state.")

But otherwise, you are right, especially in the part that Navalny is now very offended ...

[IGOR GORDEEV]

Quote: Finches

I’m now wondering what the Americans will come up with and how far they are willing to go? Trump is tied hand and foot and can’t do anything, even put things in order in his own administration ... That’s what it means when a cook begins to rule the state, there is no experience, there is no base, not even comrades from sensible politicians ...!

Then let Trump take lessons from our GDP, which came to power in a country in almost complete disarm ...

[Finches]

Yes, he’s happy, but Congress and the Senate are the only ones bothering him ... Here, he’d better take one lesson from Boris Nikolaevich, which went down in history as the “Shooting of the White House” or “Acceleration of the Supreme Council” ...
True, this teacher, fortunately, has already retired ... at all ...

[Siberian]

It is so moved away. But after all, not everything is lost: webinars are popular now, everyone will show and tell remotely, all the recordings have been saved (video and audio in excellent condition - recently viewed), there is a chance!

[korvin1976]

For some reason, I have a firm conviction that everything is not so simple in the USA as it seems to us. In my opinion, the US is undergoing a fairly deep process of redistribution of power, or more correctly, the change of elite.
Trump, at the moment, is cornered, at least everyone thinks so, but ..... Trump is far from being, and so just will not be given into his hands.
A peculiar forecast for the future:
July 4, 2018 will be a significant event in the life of the United States, and not only a historical holiday Independence Day, but also real events in honor of this holiday.
On July 4, 2018, the U.S. Senate will be dispersed. And this procedure will be conducted by the current President of the United States Trump.

Prerequisites for this action:
- At the moment, well, in the future, all the projects submitted by Tram to the Senate for consideration are “hanging” and continue to “hang”. All of these Trump projects were voiced in his campaign company, these and other projects aimed at improving the life of an ordinary average American.
- Tram, at the moment, is securing the support of the army and the military lobby, and is also trying to enlist the support of special services. He "bought" the army with the opportunity to increase the budget for military spending, military lobbies by concluding large contracts for the production and sale of weapons, both in the US Army and outside the United States (one amount with the Saudis of 110 billion, which costs)
- Support for the special services "is bought by the fact that these same special services are given many powers that they either took away from them before, or they never had any. Special services for the most part get more tactical freedom and freedom of maneuver.
- Constant pressure on Trump, cannot but lead to the fact that this pressure itself will lead to the reverse process (action is equal to counteraction)
- Tramp's constant accusations that he (most likely) did not commit, of course, spoil Trump's reputation, but at the same time spoil the reputation of his opponents. And if Trump does not lose so much in glasses, then his opponents, with constant punctures, lose enough.
- The threat of impeachment to Trump in the near future is just a threat, the Republicans (the majority in the Senate) are well aware that the impeachment of the President (Republican) will inflict huge damage on them in political glasses. And that’s why impeachment is postponed until the next Senate election in November 2018.

So. Why is it all the same on July 4, 2018?
1. Trump is essentially a showman, and it is in connection with this that this date will be chosen Independence Day from the elites leading the country in the wrong direction
2. From July 4, 2018 to November 2018 (Senate elections), about 4 months, ample time to calm down the unrest. The necessary time for a new Senate election to take place is likely already on new conditions and according to new rules
3. Will Trump remain president after such events? Most likely not, at the beginning of the events, Trump will most likely announce his resignation from the presidency, but after the Senate elections. That is, the departure of Trump will be in January 2019 (2 years of rule). Acting president will take the place of Trump (for the remaining 2 years), and here there are several possible solutions:
- either Trump will appoint his own receiver (high probability)
- either the new Senate will appoint him (medium probability)
- either, full presidential elections will be held (low probability)

Perhaps I am not right in assessing events, perhaps this will not happen, but in my opinion there are a lot of prerequisites for this.
And let it not be exactly the way I described, but the fact that in 2018, the USA will be shocked by political cataclysms, this is unambiguous and I think this simply can not be avoided.

Z.Y. All thoughts, all conclusions, all comparisons are my personal opinion, and do not claim to be true

[Sergej1972]

You do not quite imagine the mechanism for exercising power in the United States. And why in your discussions there are no such important components of the American state system as the House of Representatives of the US Congress (it is she who has the decisive vote in matters of approving the country's budget and it is in it that the vast majority of bills are put forward) and the US Supreme Court? The latter body, by the way, has unquestioned authority and may even cancel laws passed by Congress and signed by the President if they, in the opinion of its members, are contrary to the US Constitution. In the United States, the judiciary has tremendous authority. At the same time, paradoxically, most judges do not hide their sympathy for the Democrats or Republicans.
In general, in the USA, the President does not have the right to dissolve either the Senate or the House of Representatives. In no case. Not once in the history of the country have there even been attempts at this kind of action. True, the chambers of Congress are not eligible to resign from the President. Impeachment is the removal of the President from office for the crimes committed, and not for his policies. And this process is very complex and multi-stage. It involves both houses of Congress and the federal judiciary.
It would be easier for Trump to try to influence the change in the composition of the Congress during the upcoming elections. Fortunately, the House of Representatives as a whole is re-elected every two years, and the Senate is replaced by a third every two years.
By the way, most senators and congressmen have been sitting in Congress for almost decades. And the backbone of the state apparatus (except for political appointees) is also in the service for many years. Presidents are changing, and officials always need to find a common language with congressmen.

[korvin1976]

Sorry, for the possible lack of knowledge of the entire structure of the legislative branch in the OSHA, but this does not change the essence. In fact, the Senate, Congress, the House of Representatives, there is a difference in clerical work, but in the events I have described, this is completely different.

Quote: Sergej1972

In general, in the USA, the President does not have the right to dissolve either the Senate or the House of Representatives. In no case. Not once in the history of the country have there even been attempts at this kind of action.

And who is talking about legal dissolution? I just described the illegal dissolution, in fact a power seizure of power. The fact that this did not happen before that, well ... there were a lot of things, and then it appeared. The presidency of Trump can also be considered one of the wonders of the world.

Quote: Sergej1972

It would be easier for Trump to try to influence the change in the composition of the Congress during the upcoming elections.

But this scenario looks even more fantastic compared to my scenario

[Sergej1972]

Why? Who is stopping his supporters, and there are many of them, from winning the US Congress, State Congresses and municipalities? At least a third to a quarter of counties. And in some states, a proportional system is used in local government elections, and it’s even easier to get supporters to representative bodies.

[korvin1976]

To be honest, I did not really notice a lot of Trump supporters.
If you think that I like this script, then you are deeply mistaken, I’m just more comfortable with your script, but I wrote my feelings, not my desires

[Sergej1972]

The bipartisan system in the United States and used in the elections to representative bodies at the federal level and in the vast majority of states, the majority system of the relative majority does not allow those forces to be represented in them, which can hold a quarter and a third of the population across the country or state, but which there is no chance to go first in the vast majority of single-mandate constituencies. But the US political elites do not want to introduce a proportional system, or at least its elements, or even the election of at least a small part of congressmen on its basis.

[korvin1976]

I tell you about Thomas, and you tell me about Yorema. What difference does it make, what is its composition, how is it elected, and so on, if in fact all this can go into oblivion with a power seizure of power. Namely, this is the scenario I described.
As for your scenario, when Trump can change the composition and get more supporters in Congresses, in the Senates, then this scenario looks even more utopian

[Sergej1972]

Sorry to correct you a little. But the Senate is the second, upper house of Congress. And the lower house is the House of Representatives. The laws of the chamber are adopted jointly. Only the Senate is involved in the approval of the President of the United States for senior positions. But in financial matters, the House of Representatives has priority.

[siberalt]

Save on Kremlin Christmas trees.
At yesterday’s Evening with Soloviev, even Zhirinovsky grabbed his head when he learned about the size of the American deep. missions in Moscow.

[Maz]

How so? They live!

[Bourbon]

Quote: Megatron

and as we lived, we will continue to live.

yes no dear ... we will not live as we lived!

[Kent0001]

Yeah. You are our optimist ... in the end you had to write cheers and put a lot of exclamation points.

[soroKING]

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

[Logall]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

And the next response they need is access to the toilets by the hour to do. Or even close. Let them burst with anger ...

[Knowing]

Quote: Logall

And the next response they need is access to the toilets by the hour to do.

Yeah, and forbid the shower ... Do you regret fellow citizens, those in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok ... There will be a scent from the Americans ... K-heh ... And so in inolibero you can’t breathe from them, but here in kind the whole amber and out ...

[angor]

Well, enough of the backroom games, it's time to go out into the world.

[Stas157]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

So this is not a response to sanctions. This is bringing the relationship into an equivalent position. And this is a belated reaction. It was precisely such parity that the dip of workers was under the USSR, and only with EBN did the parity change. To punish a partner, you need to deprive him of something more.

[IGOR GORDEEV]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

An equal number of diplomats is planned from them and from our side.

[Bourbon]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

we just equalized the number of people ..... now we will evenly share

[Olgovich]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

1: 20-and it is necessary!

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

In this case, please note, this is a half measure. So far, there is just an equalization of the number of representatives of the diplomatic mission on both sides to 455 people. The United States itself gave rise to the possibility of cutting off their numbers, which earlier Russia simply could not do in view of the fact that it was necessary to find (invent) an excuse to reduce their mission. It is interesting that even now, they have not yet answered for the expelled 35 of our diplomats. In which case, from the 455 remaining Americans, we can take away another 35 for Obama’s December sin.

[izya top]

This unjustified measure is regrettable.

What about us?
they cut the wings of the swamp. you already rubbed your hands before the presidential election, and now there’s no one to supervise them, they’ll have time to deal with the current diplomats

[engineering]

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a decrease in the staff of US diplomatic missions in the Russian Federation by 755 people. The result should be 455 employees

The places of the departed mattress diplomats will be replaced by our valiant Navalny, Sytins, Gozmans, Kasyanovs and other respected people in the mattress State Department.

[Fei_Wong]

Quote: engineering

and other respected people in the mattress State Department.

Nope. Nifiga they are not respected there. A servile servant can never arouse respect from the owner. He is simply an instrument, a thing, an asset.

[svp67]

Hooray, at least in some way "parity" reached ....

[Fei_Wong]

For once, EXCELLENT news!
Still, they would start supplying trampolines instead of the RD-180 - and in general beauty would be. Some figs, trade between the Russian Federation and the USA is really small, so we will manage without their dollars for the engines and not even notice, but they will learn trampolines. Well, or ask the Chinese mega-slingshot with an elastic band. And so pulled.

[aszzz888]

This unjustified measure is regrettable. We assess the impact of such a reduction and how we respond to it. At the moment, no other comments are given.
- Said the representative of the US Foreign Ministry.

... there is a good proverb about the eyes and the dew of God ... it’s just about the merikatos ...

[lexx2038]

Why are there so many of them? These are not diplomats, but an entire occupation corps. It’s interesting, how many of our diplomats in India are wresting?

[insular]

Quote: lexx2038

It’s interesting, how many of our diplomats in India are wresting?

The result should remain 455 employees which is similar to the number of domestic diplomats in the United States.

[Victor_B]

Asymmetrical!

[Mountain shooter]

The normal answer is this. It is in the spirit of Russia's asymmetric responses to all grebes from the Americans.

[anjey]

even targeted and personal, the most active spies would be cleaned up, though some kind of ping-pong turns out, the Americans will prepare new nasty things to our answer ...

[1536]

There has already been talk that the reduction will affect primarily Russian citizens working in the US embassy. One way or another, but with espionage, subversive activities of the Americans in Russia must be stopped. And we must ensure that the Americans do not harm our citizens. A wounded beast is doubly more dangerous.

[B.T.V.]

Russian citizens working in the embassy and diplomat. consulates are not included in the number 755.

[Knowing]

Ah well done Vladimir Vladimirovich, yes Sergey Viktorovich... We paused and ... not a slap in the face, but a direct hit. Knockdown. Until the knockdown ... Bravissimo !!!

[Sars]

Once in America labor productivity is two times higher than in Russia, therefore, their diplomats can be left half as much.

[ML-334]

I wish you could completely close this viper in Yöburg.

[Hadji Murat]

good bye America ..... ohhh .....

[populist]

The response to the sanctions is, of course, weak. And for a strong answer, we either do not have the opportunity, or the Kremlin celestials, etc. are afraid to give such an answer.

[Nix1986]

I did not see your comment, but I agree with you. It looks very petty, if there is no way to at least give an adequate answer, it probably should not have done this. The next step could be a ban on showing children "Tom and Jerry."

[AID.S]

[quote = Nix1986] It looks very petty, if there is no way, at least more or less, to give an adequate answer, then probably this one should not be done.
Gypsum removed?
[quote = Nix1986] The next step may be the prohibition of showing children "Tom and Jerry." [/ Quote]
Poor, they are children !!!

[Nix1986]

Maybe it was better to go and urinate everyone on the walls of the embassy? it would be a "large-scale" answer :))

[Arameev]

Quote: populist

The response to the sanctions is, of course, weak. : request

Is this really the answer to the sanctions? In my opinion, the answer to sanctions is yet to come, and this is a response to the endless expulsion of Russian diplomats and a ban on the use of real estate owned by the Russian diplomatic corps, which occurred some time ago and remained unanswered.

[samarin1969]

The main thing is to bring the matter to an end and really reduce it by 755 people .... And now they will again “back up” in the spirit: “We, having conferred with Comrade Tillerson, decided to limit ourselves to the rotation of 35 diplomats” ...

[Nix1986]

Responses, of course, were needed, but compared with the actions of the United States, they look very faded. It’s the same as a neighbor took half of the land, and I broke a vase for him. But, unfortunately, we cannot answer with something more serious.

[Siberian]

I think it would be serious to slam all (all) NPOs related to foreign (any) financial (in any volume) support. Right under the wild howl of them and our democratic grouping. To win over planned and according to results - unscheduled inspections. In nature, there is not a single thing (enterprise, foundation, organization, at least commercial, at least not), which cannot be attached.

[RED PARTISAN]

It would be better 3/3 ...

[midshipman]

The position in terms of the number of US deep corps in Russia should be further tightened. The population of the Russian Federation is 144 mil. people, and the USA is 328 mil. person. The US deep corps should be half of the Russian, i.e. the US deep corps should not exceed 220 employees. It is necessary to close the Center of the Alkash, all political NGOs, Ekho Moskvy. Deprive Russian citizenship of Kozyrev and other "Americans" who left to live there. Often in the 80s I had to go to the USA on official business. I received visas at the US Embassy and there was nothing to worry about. I have the honor.

[NACC]

Late to catch up. It was necessary to drive out for the New Year and in 24 hours!

[K-50]

This unjustified measure is regrettable.

Well, why immediately "unjustified."
"With what measure you measure, that is how you are measured out." (from)
And in Russian: Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
Finally, just do the crayfish themselves !!! They told you - we will answer. And the fact that you do not like the answer. Well, we didn’t like what you and our diplomatic corps were doing.

[pafegosoff]

Eye for Eye - in Hebrew. It’s in the Bible, it seems ... But we Christians constantly turn our cheeks. Well, we make noise, we read sermons. That's why they crucify.

[pvv113]

Vladimir Putin announced a decrease in the staff of US diplomatic missions in the Russian Federation by 755 people

In short, with things out

[pafegosoff]

Circles on the water. We made a noise and drive out: the RF Stabilization Fund in the United States. The money of the oligarchs is in their banks. Trillions of dollars are profane idiots and disgusting. So, - PPR (party political work) or who knows the decryption ... China without the States - will fall apart (very much depends on their money). Germany is noisy, but they cycle on it from across the ocean - it presses its tail. Look what will happen on September 1: they’ll agree: “We don’t freeze your money, and you Russians allow us to increase the embassies (and half of them in Moscow) by 1000 more employees (advantage from the CIA and the DPR (community of 16 other intelligence of which the main - two - the NSA and the Financial Intelligence) .In general, - no noise ...

[CAT BAIYUN]

This unjustified measure is regrettable.

Yeah .. By the type of "what is it for us?"

[sgazeev]

Diplomatic relations between the USA and the USSR were established in November 1933. Bullitt, the first US ambassador to Moscow, wrote to the State Department in 1936: "Under no circumstances should spies be sent to the Soviet Union. There is no more effective or more disarming means in relations with the Communists than absolute honesty."

However, during the expulsion of Soviet diplomats, embassy drivers, all employees of the UPDK (Office for the Maintenance of the Diplomatic Corps) went on strike and this paralyzed the work of the embassy. After that, the mattresses did not try to practice the expulsion of diplomats.

[Arameev]

Quote: sgazeev

... Bullitt, the first US ambassador to Moscow, wrote to the State Department in 1936: "Under no circumstances should spies be sent to the Soviet Union. In relations with the Communists there is no more effective or more disarming means than absolute honesty."
However, during the expulsion of Soviet diplomats, embassy drivers, all employees of the UPDK (Office for the Maintenance of the Diplomatic Corps) went on strike and this paralyzed the work of the embassy. After that, the mattresses did not try to practice the expulsion of diplomats.

apparently in the 36th there were still real communists. because the attitude towards them was .... appropriate ...

[Brushing]

In general, you need to leave one ambassador with the secretary and to guard a couple of marines ... and that's it ...

[16112014nk]

Quote: soroKING

answered normally, they kicked out our 35, we 755

And how many Russian citizens, technical workers in embassies and consulates, are included in this number? And how many specifically are US citizens?

[The splinter]

It’s time to drive out NATO spies and their minions from Russia!

[vladimirvn]

Shorten their legs to the very neck.