Today's Komsomolka has this diagram of Medvedev's desk. Number 11 screen right is the phone for speaking to Putin. pic.twitter.com/wiYS8y5wb1
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2014
Komsomolka interview with Medvedev is hardhitting: "Why are there no flowers in your office?" "What's that large rhinocerous on your desk?"
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2014
Medvedev asked if he'll give up his "US gadgets" over tension with USA. "What's that got to do with the Iphone?" he says. That's a no, then.
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2014
Russia's MK website reacts to Prince Charles' alleged Putin remarks:he "risks complicating UK-Rus relations which have already clouded over"
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2014
British media reports said several witnesses heard the prince make the comment on May 19 to Marienne Ferguson, a 78-year-old who fled the Nazis aged 13 and lost family members in the Holocaust.
Ferguson told the media that Charles, heir to the British throne, said, "...Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler."
Charles met Ferguson during a tour of the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as part of a four-day trip to Canada with his wife, Camilla.
He is due to meet with Putin during D-Day commemorations in France on June 6.
Clarence House, the official residence of Prince Charles, said it would not comment on a private conversation.
Pro-Russian politician Oleh Tsaryov's house burned in petrol bomb attack http://t.co/M7QwkQKYAg
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) May 21, 2014
Подожжённый дом Олега Царёва в Днепропетровске pic.twitter.com/dJNa4U6Gk4
— Константин Рыков (@rykov) May 21, 2014
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, speaking to me from China, says he's "not commenting right now" about Prince Charles' comments
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2014
#Ukraine's richest oligarch Akhmetov urges Donbas residents to 'fight, fight, fight' (VIDEO) http://t.co/qNNhc0CL9b http://t.co/FosGjBriBd
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) May 21, 2014
Outrageous Ukrainian comedy segment, at home with Putin & Alina, Viktor Yanukovych living in the wardrobe https://t.co/L5AMGsG6Au
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) May 21, 2014
Mayor of Mikolaev receives a package with a chopped off dog's head in it and inside the head a grenade
— bruce springnote (@BSpringnote) May 21, 2014
A week ago wrote about the Donbas Battalion. Now Vice has some good visuals on one of their operations https://t.co/evidxtXG4G
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) May 21, 2014
Speaking today in Bucharest alongside Romanian President Traian Basescu, Biden, said "we must be resolute" in enforcing sanctions against Moscow and that tougher measures could come if the May 25 polls are undermined.
Biden also reiterated NATO's Article 5 commitments, saying Russia's aggression in Crimea, less than 200 kilometers from alliance member Romania's borders, shows why it is still needed.
The vice president thanked Romania for increasing its defense budget to 2 percent of its gross domestic product.
Biden also said work is on track to open a antimissile shield in Deveselu, Romania, next year.
Basescu thanked Biden for the immediate U.S. reaction to the Ukrainian crisis by supplementing the U.S. Air Force presence in the region.
"This is proof that the U.S. is respecting its word," he said.
After talks with Prime Minister Victor Ponta, Biden later said that Europe needs "a secure, diverse, and interconnected energy market" to ensure Russia can no longer use energy "as a weapon."