Leader Barack Obama said the Russian Federation greater threat than the terrorists of the radical group " Islamic state ", comparing Russia with the Ebola virus at the conference " Big twenty ", drew the attention of the head of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov on the first day of the weekend.

He also noticed that attacks similar to the comparison of Russia with the Ebola virus, which has allowed himself to Obama, there was during the cold war. Such statements have no hope for the reset of relations between the Russian Federation and the United States, said Pushkov.


" Challenging statements Obama does not leave room for hope, if they who were to discharge or reset of relations between the U.S. and Russia, " Pushkov wrote in his own microblog on Twitter.

Obama said that North America is the leader in the battle against Ebola in Western Africa and in opposition to the aggression of Russia on Ukraine, which has become a threat to the world, as we saw when it was shot down Flight MH17 ".

the head of the U.S. has repeatedly applied the comparisons with terrorists and the Ebola virus, the first time in September speech to the UN General Assembly. In the Russian foreign Ministry Obama's speech called " a set of cliches and propaganda slogans ". The Russian foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century said that These assessments are " beyond good and evil ".

Flight MH17 Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 under the Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. In the cabin there were 298 people, and among them 27 Australians, all lost their lives. The Kyiv authorities have charged in the crash militias, those told that they do not have the tools that would allow to shoot down aircraft at this altitude.

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