Arguing the roots of Russophobia

There was a moment when he was gamely talking re-set with former President Barack Obama and famously enamored with all thing’s technology.  He even brought the Silicon Valley concept to Moscow where he fired up the Skolkovo Innovation Center.  Now he’s fired up on other ideas.

In a social media rant laden with warnings including on the potential of nuclear war, Dmitry Medvedev told the West not to “choke on your saliva in the paroxysms of Russophobia!”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used that term a few times himself today.

At a conference in Tajikistan where he was at one point practically drowned out by a pack of crying peacocks, Russia’s top diplomat accused the Lithuanians who voted this week to call Russia’s war in Ukraine…