NEWSWATCH Reuters: With eye on U.S. election, Republicans assail Russia’s Putin

[“With eye on U.S. election, Republicans assail Russia’s Putin” – Reuters – STEVE HOLLAND – June 8, 2015]

Reuters covers U.S. policies on Russia and Ukraine, and reactions by Republican presidential hopefuls.

Something about Vladimir Putin makes Republicans in the U.S. presidential race see red.
 

The Russian president has emerged as a symbol for what they view as President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy, and an easy route for criticizing his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton …
 

… Putin is an easy target, the man whose aggression against Ukraine and annexation of Crimea have revived Cold War tensions that Republicans credit their hero, President Ronald Reagan, with having ended in the 1980s.

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