Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia "will be prepared, if need be, to render assistance in the investigation the US authorities are carrying out".

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Rather, the question is whether the United States will insist upon its own standards of conduct when it is called upon to render assistance to both parties.

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If anything is begrudged, it is the passage by voters (through their representatives) of laws and regulations that make it more difficult to render assistance as they make it more difficult to live.

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