April 4, 2014
A recording has surfaced
online purporting to be a leaked conversation between two Russian ambassadors
discussing which parts of the world they would like to annex after Crimea.
The five-minute recording, laden with expletives, has been posted on YouTube and claims to be a telephone call between Igor Chubarov, Russia's ambassador to Eritrea, and Sergei Bakharev, the ambassador to Zimbabwe and Malawi. It has not been authenticated.
"We've got Crimea,
but that's not fucking all folks. In the future we'll damn well take your
Catalonia and Venice, and also Scotland and Alaska," says the voice
labelled as Chubarov, interspersing his speech with laughter and punning the
word for Scotland in Russian so it sounds like "Cattleland".
After this, Chubarov says
Russia will make a move for "all those fucking border countries",
such as Estonia, as well as Romania and Bulgaria. He adds that the head of the
EU mission to Eritrea had jokily said that he wished Russia would "take
back" Romania and Bulgaria.
In the end, the
ambassadors agree it is probably better to leave Bulgaria, Romania and the
"Baltic shit" in the EU for now, and Bakharev says it would be more
interesting to go for California or Miami.
"Exactly, Miamiland
is fucking 95% Russian citizens," says Chubarov. "We have a full
right to hold a referendum." Bakharev suggests holding one in
"Londonland" as well, to jovial laughter.
Chubarov congratulates
Bakharev on the fact that Zimbabwe was one of only 11 countries, with Syria and
North Korea, to back Russia at the UN over its annexation of Crimea. There is
also consternation that the "bastards" from Malawi did not support
Moscow.
Russian Ambassadors to
meet Vladimir Putin's objectives on Ukraine within UN
5:30
March 30, 2014
