Ex-prosecutor Poklonskaya hopes Trump will live up to campaign promises about Crimea

Crimea’s parliamentarians from the State Duma expressed hope on Wednesday that Donald Trump will live up to his campaign pledges to recognize Crimea as part of Russia.


"It’s time for the new president of the US to live up to his sounding promises to recognize the Crimean referendum," the former prosecutor of the republic Natalia Poklonskaya wrote in her Twitter microblog on Wednesday.

Dialogue not to start right away

Poklonskaya’s colleague in the State Duma, Crimea’s former vice-premier Ruslan Balbek, also expressed confidence that the US will reverse its stance on Crimea under the new president, however not immediately.
  [tass.com]
9/11/16
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