Leader Barack Obama, who said that Russia's economy is " in tatters ", confused the Russian Federation to Ukraine, head of Department of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov.

Obama during the annual speech On the situation of the country "before the U.S. Congress said that eventually imposed by Western countries punishments economy of the Russian Federation at the present time" in tatters ".


Now Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that in 2015, the country faces the challenge to survive, it will be difficult to absolutely all social strata. The authorities want to improve the situation of foreign borrowing. In 2015, Ukraine will have to pay foreign creditors 6, 5 billion dollars.

in 1999, the head of the United States George W. Bush during his first election campaign confused Slovakia with Slovenia. In 2007 Bush during a speech before the participants of the summit of the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation (APEC) confused Australia with Austria, and APEC with OPEC.

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