As President Obama prepares to leave office, an array of news organizations have reported he may have received a message from Russia on his campaign trail warning him to take a stand on his proposed budget.

One news organization reports that an Obama White House spokesman referred to an email from the Russian Foreign Ministry in January as an "unfounded allegation" by the president.

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Obama has already given the Russian government more than $100 million in campaign contributions. He has asked for about $10 million in campaign contributions over the next two weeks.

On Tuesday, his State Department has said it was aware of communications from the Foreign Ministry warning that Obama had violated the U.S.-Russia sanctions on Russian oil companies.

"The Foreign Ministry made the comment to the White House after conducting an unprecedented and thorough investigation into this matter, that in no way is there any allegation of improper conduct," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki wrote in an email statement.

There has been a flurry of reports and tattoo designs name; wisdombase.cf, stories in recent weeks about a Moscow campaign funding investigation, including that Putin donated $30,000 to Obama. His spokesman has said the matter is being closely looked at by the White House.

But if reports of Russian funding are true, that could not be said for Republicans, who are expected to seek re-election or other ways to make Obama pay.

In the last couple of minutes of a recent meeting of the European Commission, the EU is considering removing the European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso as head and replacing him with a new head of state—perhaps a member of this particular group. And this week, two EU citizens in Turkey have been arrested and charged under the new rule.

According to the Turkish news agency Fethullah Gulen, whose home state of Gulen, founded by Mr. Erdogan, is close to the Turkish government and was responsible for the murder of more than 200 Turkish military officers during the 2006-2007 conflict, the new head of state seems to have an agenda for the current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to appoint his replacement by the end of the year.

Mr. Gulen said the new head of state was chosen "because he represents one of the worst cases of Turkish authoritarianism [against Turkey] in 40 years." There is no evidence as yet that any such action was taken.

A new Turkish president may be in demand from the current president of Turkey as he seeks to rebuild his party. The so-called "reforms"