The Russian lawmaker said: 'We should take advantage of their existing differences. We should drive them not only to an economic shutdown, but a political one.'
"I am astonished that after everything that has happened in Ukraine, she still thinks this way," a former leader says of ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to Pavel Andreyev, Russian observers took part in only 21 out of 125 ODIHR election monitoring missions over the past five years, and mostly in post-Soviet countries and Serbia
Arseniy Yatsenyuk lashed out at Beijing , dismissing claims the Asian superpower was 'neutral' in Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin 's murderous effort to overrun Ukraine.