Despite coarse comment, Nuland no stranger to power of words

By way of Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe who angered one of the crucial very people she is supposed to domesticate by crudely disparaging the European Union in a leaked phone name on America's Ukraine policy, isn’t any stranger to the facility of phrases. A profession diplomat who speaks Russian and French, Nuland has served near the top of the U.S. international policy apparatus for years, including a stint performing the high-wire act of State Division spokeswoman. The daughter of an eminent Yale University professor, she landed in some hot water this week when a recording of a cell phone name surfaced on the net and caught her pronouncing "Fuck the EU." It’s the roughly statement, former officials stated, that’s incessantly made privately in Washington and that would possibly even win Nuland some quiet applause, but its look on YouTube and its merchandising by a Russian legit embarrassed the State Department and raised questions about its safety strategies. There seems to be little love misplaced between the Kremlin and Nuland, at the least to guage by way of an anecdote U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry instructed about one among his early meetings last 12 months with Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov.