The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 22, 2022 Russia Summons U.S. Ambassador After Biden Calls Putin "War Criminal" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Russia has summoned the U.S. ambassador to Moscow to deliver a formal complaint over President Joe Biden's recent remark calling Vladimir Putin a "war criminal." The diplomatic row threatens to sever relations between Moscow and Washington for the first time since the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union in 1933. .