{"id":287335,"date":"2016-12-26T17:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gorbachev-criticizes-obamas-misguided-policy-toward-russia\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T16:52:58","slug":"gorbachev-criticizes-obamas-misguided-policy-toward-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gorbachev-criticizes-obamas-misguided-policy-toward-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorbachev criticizes Obama\u2019s \u2018misguided policy\u2019 toward Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized outgoing US President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cmisguided policy\u201d toward Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an extensive interview with <em>The Associated Press <\/em>on Monday, Gorbachev said during the Obama administration, Washington and its allies \u201chave been badgering Russia with accusations and blaming it for everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now, there is a backlash to that in Russia. Russia wants to have friendly ties with America, but it&#8217;s difficult to do that when Russia sees that it&#8217;s being cheated,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The 85-year-old expressed optimism that ties between Russia and the United States would improve during Republican President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s time in office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The relations between us are so important and concern everyone else, so we must take the interests of others into account,&#8221; said Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union oversaw an easing of decades of tensions with the United States.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/photo\/20161206\/7c73bbe2-3ca4-4215-a591-228693e390c8.jpg\"\/><figcaption>US President&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/26\/503566\/Gorbachev-Obama-misguided-policy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized outgoing US President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cmisguided policy\u201d toward Russia. In an extensive interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Gorbachev said during the Obama administration, Washington and its allies \u201chave been badgering Russia with accusations and blaming it for everything.&#8221; &#8220;And now, there is a backlash to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}