@blatham,
Russian politicians mounted a fierce defence of Flynn.
Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, said in a Facebook post that firing a national security adviser for his contacts with Russia is "not just paranoia but something even worse."
"Either Trump has not gained the requisite independence and he is consequently being not unsuccessfully backed into a corner, or Russophobia has already infected the new administration also from top to bottom," Kosachev was cited as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the lower house of parliament's foreign affairs committee, told RIA: "It's obvious that Flynn was forced to write the letter of resignation under a certain amount of pressure."
(Source:
spiegelonline [in German])