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Mayakovsky (center)

May 24, 2017

Former Secretary of State John Kerry blasted the Trump administration during a commencement speech Wednesday at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, advising graduates to learn to speak Russian in light of collusion allegations.

“I’m often asked what the secret is … to having a real impact on government,” Mr. Kerry told the crowd.

“Well, it’s recently changed. I used to say, ‘Either run for office or get a degree from Harvard Kennedy School.’ With this White House, I’d say, ‘Buy Rosetta Stone and learn Russian,” he joked, earning cheers.

The remark comes as the administration faces unsubstantiated claims that Trump associates colluded with the Russians in attempting to influence the 2016 election. President Trump has blasted the allegations as “fake news.”

Mr. Kerry claimed “this is not a normal time” for America, and said he refuses to put on a “contrived mantle of bipartisanship” that alleges both parties are to blame for what’s going wrong in the country.

“It’s not normal to see a president of the United States decrying ‘so-called judges,’” he said, in remarks first flagged by Politico. “It’s not normal for the leader of the country that invented the First Amendment to routinely degrade and even threaten journalists. And no, it’s not normal to see the head of the FBI fired summarily because he was investigating connections between Russia and the presidential campaign of the very man who fired him.

The Russian-speaking population of Israel is the world's third-largest population of Russian native-speakers living outside the former Soviet Union territories after Germany and the United States, and the highest as a proportion of the population.^[8][9] As of 2013, 1,231,003 residents of the Post-Soviet states have immigrated to Israel since the fall of the Soviet Union.^[10] As of 2017, there are up to 1.5 million Russian-speaking Israelis.^[11]

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