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The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 2)
According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make…
The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 1)
The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict…
A war and peace visit to Moscow
After arriving in Moscow, Nuland had a lengthy meeting on October 12 in the foreign ministry with Deputy…
To have stable and predictable relations with Russia, US need to strengthen Ukraine
[editorial]The US wants better relations with Russia, and that is understandable. Ukraine can help: truly stable and predictable…
Russian gas, German elections, and US sanctions
Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in…
US House of Representatives may have just killed Nord Stream 2
On 23 September, the Democrat-controlled lower house of the United States Congress voted for amendments to the National…
Seven reasons why the USA and EU lost to the Nord Stream 2 lobbyists
[editorial]In a way, Ukraine was very successful in opposing Nord Stream 2, because no other similar project of…
“A second Budapest memorandum”: experts on the US-Germany Nord Stream 2 deal
[editorial]”America is not back,” “big win for Gazprom,”” the Kremlin, without being a party to this agreement, keeps…
What the US-German deal on Nord Stream 2 promises Ukraine
The document begins with an assurance that the United States and Germany strongly support Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity,…
US-Germany Nord Stream 2 agreement — a victory for Russia
At the same time, European gas storage levels are at only 53 percent of their capacity, or nearly…
Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine
In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…
Putin offering Ukraine same deal Stalin offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky says
Adenauer at the time replied that he preferred to remain the chancellor of half of Germany than become…
Biden-Putin summit sparks political confrontations inside Ukraine
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland sought to reassure the Ukrainian side that Washington…
NATO Summit: Strong on Russia but a net disappointment to Eastern Allies and Partners
United States President Joseph Biden’s first-time participation concentrated much of the attention at this NATO summit. Biden was…
Four setbacks to Western credibility in Ukraine (Part 1)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has scrapped the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine and NATO-Georgia commissions that had…
Under Biden, sanctions against Russia will be more consistent and stable, their “architect” says
In this interview with Valentyna Samar, editor-in-chief of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, and Julia Kazdobina, head of…
Two words that shook Putin’s regime
The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last…
Moscow presents US as sinking into chaos
Four years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in…
Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…
Moscow outraged by calls to remove statues of Russian colonizer in Alaska
The statue of Baranov remains in place, and no decision has yet been taken to do anything to…