MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin dryly wished President Biden “good health” on Thursday after the American leader assented to a description of his Russian counterpart as a “killer,” and long-running tensions morphed into a furious exchange of trans-Atlantic taunts.

The previous evening, Russia took the rare step of recalling its ambassador to Washington after Mr. Biden’s comments in a television interview, warning of the possibility of an “irreversible deterioration of relations.” On Thursday, seated in a gilded chair on the seventh anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Mr. Putin all but called Mr. Biden a killer himself.

“When I was a child, when we argued in the courtyard, we said the following: ‘If you call someone names, that’s really your name,’” Mr. Putin said, quoting a Russian schoolyard rhyme. “When we characterize other people, or even when we characterize other states, other people, it is always as though we are looking in the mirror.”

Despite Mr. Biden’s long-running criticism of Mr. Putin, some Russian analysts had voiced hope that the Kremlin could forge a productive working relationship with the new administration in Washington on areas of common interest. But Mr. Biden’s combative stance in an interview with ABC News that was broadcast on Wednesday seemed to puncture those hopes, even as many of Mr. Putin’s critics praised the American president’s comments.

In the interview, when asked whether he thought Mr. Putin was a “killer,” Mr. Biden responded: “Mmm hmm, I do.” He further pledged that Mr. Putin is “going to pay” for Russian interference in the 2020 election, which was detailed in an American intelligence report this week.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced sanctions against Russian officials after declassifying an intelligence finding that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency had orchestrated the poisoning of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny.

“He said everything right,” a top aide to Mr. Navalny, Leonid Volkov, posted on Twitter, referring to Mr. Biden’s comments.

To the Kremlin, however, Mr. Biden’s interview offered a fresh opportunity to highlight its confrontation with the West for its home audience — a useful tool at a time of broadening domestic discontent over a stagnant economy and official corruption. Mr. Putin has painted Mr. Navalny and other Kremlin critics as Western agents on a mission to destroy Russia. And polls show that Russians remain far more likely to trust Mr. Putin on foreign policy than they do on domestic affairs.

“This is a watershed moment,” Konstantin I. Kosachev, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s upper house of Parliament, wrote in a post on Facebook on Thursday in reference to Mr. Biden’s interview. “Any expectations for the new U.S. administration’s new policy toward Russia have been written off by this boorish statement.”

Mr. Kosachev warned that Russia would respond further, without specifying how, to Mr. Biden’s comments “if explanations and apologies do not follow from the American side.”

As if to underscore the anger in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said late Wednesday that it had summoned its envoy in Washington, Anatoly I. Antonov, to Moscow “in order to analyze what needs to be done in the context of relations with the United States.” Russia last recalled its ambassador to Washington in 1998, to protest American airstrikes against Iraq.

“We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this,” Maria V. Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, said in a statement.

On state television, news programs devoted extensive airtime to describing Mr. Biden as confused and out of touch, while politicians lined up to voice their anger and threaten a response.



https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/world/europe/russia-biden-putin-killer.html

Their problem. We have ours here. He's technically from Niger and categorically from Nigeria. He was even given d highest award for representing well. I no call name o. If u know who am talking about na u sabi

I no want hear world war 3 in the midst of this pandemic o

O ma baddt gan

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bigeliot:
Their problem. We have ours here. He's technically from Niger and categorically from Nigeria. He was even given d highest award for representing well. I no call name o. If u know who am talking about na u sabi

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That was a very careless statement to make...

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wwwihy:
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin dryly wished President Biden “good health” on Thursday after the American leader assented to a description of his Russian counterpart as a “killer,” and long-running tensions morphed into a furious exchange of trans-Atlantic taunts.

The previous evening, Russia took the rare step of recalling its ambassador to Washington after Mr. Biden’s comments in a television interview, warning of the possibility of an “irreversible deterioration of relations.” On Thursday, seated in a gilded chair on the seventh anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Mr. Putin all but called Mr. Biden a killer himself.

“When I was a child, when we argued in the courtyard, we said the following: ‘If you call someone names, that’s really your name,’” Mr. Putin said, quoting a Russian schoolyard rhyme. “When we characterize other people, or even when we characterize other states, other people, it is always as though we are looking in the mirror.”

Despite Mr. Biden’s long-running criticism of Mr. Putin, some Russian analysts had voiced hope that the Kremlin could forge a productive working relationship with the new administration in Washington on areas of common interest. But Mr. Biden’s combative stance in an interview with ABC News that was broadcast on Wednesday seemed to puncture those hopes, even as many of Mr. Putin’s critics praised the American president’s comments.

In the interview, when asked whether he thought Mr. Putin was a “killer,” Mr. Biden responded: “Mmm hmm, I do.” He further pledged that Mr. Putin is “going to pay” for Russian interference in the 2020 election, which was detailed in an American intelligence report this week.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced sanctions against Russian officials after declassifying an intelligence finding that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency had orchestrated the poisoning of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny.

“He said everything right,” a top aide to Mr. Navalny, Leonid Volkov, posted on Twitter, referring to Mr. Biden’s comments.

To the Kremlin, however, Mr. Biden’s interview offered a fresh opportunity to highlight its confrontation with the West for its home audience — a useful tool at a time of broadening domestic discontent over a stagnant economy and official corruption. Mr. Putin has painted Mr. Navalny and other Kremlin critics as Western agents on a mission to destroy Russia. And polls show that Russians remain far more likely to trust Mr. Putin on foreign policy than they do on domestic affairs.

“This is a watershed moment,” Konstantin I. Kosachev, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s upper house of Parliament, wrote in a post on Facebook on Thursday in reference to Mr. Biden’s interview. “Any expectations for the new U.S. administration’s new policy toward Russia have been written off by this boorish statement.”

Mr. Kosachev warned that Russia would respond further, without specifying how, to Mr. Biden’s comments “if explanations and apologies do not follow from the American side.”

As if to underscore the anger in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said late Wednesday that it had summoned its envoy in Washington, Anatoly I. Antonov, to Moscow “in order to analyze what needs to be done in the context of relations with the United States.” Russia last recalled its ambassador to Washington in 1998, to protest American airstrikes against Iraq.

“We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this,” Maria V. Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, said in a statement.

On state television, news programs devoted extensive airtime to describing Mr. Biden as confused and out of touch, while politicians lined up to voice their anger and threaten a response.



https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/world/europe/russia-biden-putin-killer.html

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Rugaria:
That was a very careless statement to make...

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No joy in the world again
Endtime thing
Money spend on production and weapon enhancement,if channelled for productive stuff,by now we would have been living on mass,planning to occupy Jupiter
But no love,hate everywhere
All man suspecting each other

Oh really! It was a careless statement to make but it wasn't anyway wrong decision to interfere in a sovereign's nation like US national election, a situation which caused the emergence of trump in the previous elections of which Cliton losed.


I think Putin is just fancy his ego in a war that maybe projected for lost of millions of live world over.

It is wrong and needs to be addressed.

Rugaria:
That was a very careless statement to make...

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Never4getU:
Oh really! It was a careless statement to make but it wasn't anyway wrong decision to interfere in a sovereign's nation like US national election, a situation which caused the emergence of trump in the previous elections of which Cliton losed.


I think Putin is just fancy his ego in a war that maybe projected for lost of millions of live world over.

It is wrong and needs to be addressed.

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Biden is not a coward like Trump.

Never4getU:
Oh really! It was a careless statement to make but it wasn't anyway wrong decision to interfere in a sovereign's nation like US national election, a situation which caused the emergence of trump in the previous elections of which Cliton losed.


I think Putin is just fancy his ego in a war that maybe projected for lost of millions of live world over.

It is wrong and needs to be addressed.

We talking diplomacy here and not "fake outrage" over normal "rlections meddling".
Who doesn't meddle in each others elections? The USA? The British? How did we get Buhari? Was he not. Imposed by David Cameron and one Obama? Who are those fuelling the "democratic insurgency" in Hong Kong against the Chinese state? Not the west? Navalny? Who's the one feeding him with the materials to use in causing chaos against Putin's Russia? You want me to tell you the truth? Nobody in this world meddles so ceaselessly in other countries internal politics/elections/administration/governance like the west! Modern imperialism is a western invention..

From Venezuela through Iran to French West Africa, all the way to Myanmar, Taiwan and Iraq. Supporting isis in Libya and Iraq against so called "fellow Christians".. It's the game nations play! The outrage is fake because as we speak, the west is plotting and actively trying to remove Putin, same way they brought down the Soviet Union and Gorbachev.. So calling the president of a very powerful country as ruthlessly armed and capable as Russia a "killer", at the beginning of your presidency, even before meeting him, is not just boneheaded and very undiplomatic, it's a totally ugly way to start off a very globally important relations.. Biden was downright irresponsible there.. The west should stop behaving like angels, they're nothing close to that..