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Article: Russia renews rhetoric against United States.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 25, 1997
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MOSCOW _ Whether they're impugning the skills of American drivers, crabbing about the blandness of imported American chickens or taking a United moving van hostage in Washington, D.C., Russian bureaucrats never miss a chance these days to take a swipe at the United States.
Although the Cold War has been consigned to history, and Russian and American presidents are now back-slapping pals, the rhetoric coming out of Moscow would make anyone think otherwise; the Russians always sound miffed about something.
In the same week that Russian cultural officials were blasting their American partners in a dispute over czarist-era museum treasures, their ...