France and Russia Can Agree on Building Amusement Parks, But Not Ending Ukraines Conflict. Before Sundays four-party talks in Berlin began, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin tried to sample local European fare. He soon came across a menu item called “Baked Potato Paris-Moscow,” which comes with salad, smoked salmon, and dill mustard sauce, according to his Twitter feed. “Such is the proximity: From warships and amusement parks to baked potatoes,” Klimkin observed. He was referring both to France’s agreement to deliver two Mistral warships to Russia (and to teach the Russian army how to build its own), and to a deal French politician Philippe de Villiers recently cut with Putin that allows Mr. de Villiers’ company to build two “historic” theme parks in Crimea and Moscow. The parks will “promote the history of Crimea as part of the long history of Russia, Villiers, who is a sitting member of the European Parliament and former presidential candidate, said on Saturday (he also said he “would gladly swap Hollande and Sarkozy for Putin”).
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:37:42 +0000
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