Back in Moscow, Romney’s reported comments made headlines and prompted strong reactions, with a report in the Moscow Times musing that the words constituted “perhaps the most hostile remark by a major U.S. politician since President Ronald Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ speech.”
If a moderate Republican called Russia enemy number one, it was hard to imagine what a conservative Republican might say, said Alexei Pushkov, head of the Duma’s powerful foreign affairs committee, according to Russia Today, a pro-Kremlin television network…
Alexander Sokolov, a pro-Kremlin leading member of Russia’s Public Chamber – an institution created by Putin in 2005 as a government oversight body – likened Romney and other Republican presidential contenders to “the Marlboro Man,” calling them “tough guys, for which there are only ‘American interests,’ and all other countries [are] potential enemies, or at least competitors.”
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