Obama
says Putin presiding over economic contraction: CNN interview
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[December 22, 2014]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
president Barack Obama has rejected the charge that he has been
outmaneuvered by Russian president Vladimir Putin, saying in a TV
interview due for broadcast later on Sunday that Putin was presiding
over "a huge economic contraction" due to the Ukraine crisis.
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Obama, in an interview with Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the
Union" program rejected the notion that Putin "is the chess master
and outmaneuvering the West and outmaneuvering Mr. Obama and this
and that and the other."
The United States and Europe have imposed a series of economic
sanctions on Russia.
"And right now, he's presiding over the collapse of his currency, a
major financial crisis and a huge economic contraction," Obama said
in the interview, which was recorded on Friday.
"That doesn't sound like somebody who has rolled me or the United
States of America."
(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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