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Russian U.K. Embassy Blasts ‘Hapless’ Obama for ‘Cold War Déjà Vu’

Embassy in the U.K. says it looks forward to next administration.

Russia’s embassy in the United Kingdom blasted the Obama administration on Thursday afternoon after it was announced that the U.S. was imposing sanctions on Russia as retaliation for its cyberattacks that interfered in the U.S. presidential election. “President Obama expels 35 [Russian] diplomats in Cold War deja vu. As everybody, including [American] people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless [administration],” the embassy’s official account tweeted, along with an accompanying image with the word “lame.” Earlier, the editor-in-chief of Russia Today, which is frequently criticized for pro-Kremlin and pro-Putin bias, mocked the U.S. for the sanctions, saying sarcastically: “Oh, I’m afraid.”