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The greatest danger in Helsinki: new ‘secret protocols’ or simply ‘understandings’
If the last century of diplomacy teaches nothing else, it is that secret protocols and understandings are a…
US non-recognition policy and Crimea – Russian misrepresentations and Baltic truths
Three US senators, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Rob Portman, have called for Washington to promulgate a policy…
Trump’s challenging of broad consensus on Crimea will lead to a broader war, Skobov says
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that…
Putin and Trump aren’t conservatives: they’re reactionaries, Golts says
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have managed to convince many others and perhaps even themselves that they are…
Trump’s summit with Putin constitutes an ‘unprecedented act of betrayal,’ Eidman says
Even before it takes place and US President Donald Trump makes concessions to Vladimir Putin in exchange for…
Trump’s statement on Crimea can lead to serious consequences, says American analyst
However, many American political scientists draw attention to the fact that if such a statement was really expressed,…
Putin-Trump meeting won’t result in dramatic changes on Ukraine many fear and some hope, Shevtsova says
Vladimir Putin has achieved a major goal with plans for a summit between him and US President Donald…
Two dangerous proposals on Crimea with even more dangerous consequences
Any time a dispute lasts beyond a few weeks, it is almost inevitable that some of those involved…
What do you call a successful terrorist? Your excellency!
It has long been a witticism among specialists on international relations that terrorists who succeed are no longer…
‘As long as Trump’s in the White House, Putin will remain in the Kremlin,’ Nemets says
Many Western and some Russian commentators have seriously misread what the new American sanctions have done to the…
Bolton’s appointment ‘a positive signal for Ukraine,’ Portnikov says
US President Donald Trump’s selection of former US permanent representative to the United Nations John Bolton as his…
Trump may negotiate with Putin for the same reasons he’s talking with Kim Jong-Un, Novoye Voennoye Obozreniye suggests
The editors of Novoye voyennoye obozreniye, the military affairs supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta, suggest that the trajectory of…
Political “gamers”: of dragons and propaganda
On Saturday President Donald Trump made yet another scandalous statement. During a fundraiser with Republican Party donors in…
Shevtsova: Moscow far more worried about Trump than many in the West think
Many Russian and Western analysts dismissed “the Kremlin list” the Trump Administration released two weeks ago as a…
Nunes Memo – Colossal blow to US national security, say FBI and CIA veterans
On February 2, the US House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee released a declassified memorandum which accuses the FBI…
‘Kremlin List’ – as published – discredits US and helps Putin, Illarionov says
The decision by the Trump Administration to substitute at the last minute a list compiled from other publicly…
‘In the interests of national security, US sanctions against Russia may be lifted’
Talks between representatives of two governments are often not about what the participants say they are and sometimes…
Kremlin isn’t panicking over new sanctions the way many are suggesting, Nemets says
Many commentators in Russia and the West are suggesting that Moscow is panicking about the consequences of the…
Putin becoming ‘a decorative dictator,’ Novoprudsky says
“The chief paradox” of the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, Semyon Novoprudsky says, is that “everyone knows who…
Trump ‘playing for Russian side’ now, Moscow commentator says
US President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to delay the implementation of Congressionally-mandated sanctions on Russia,…