President of the United States Donald Trump talks about the advisability of Russia’s participation in what was called the “Big Eight” until its exclusion from the prestigious club, and now has returned to its usual format – the...
Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind and those who refuse to acknowledge what they in fact see that the Kremlin has used regular Russian military units in Ukraine and that...
The proposal by US President Donald Trump to return his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the G8, of course, can become a real political sensation. Even if Trump started making such proposals annually, they would not cease to be an...
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what he and his propagandists have been doing from the times of the 2016 US elections when Moscow outlets repeatedly warned that the...
Vladimir Putin’s sabre rattling in his presidential address was intended to tempt Donald Trump into acting he has with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, another intractably hostile leader with whom the US president could nonetheless...
Russian commentators are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to pull American forces from Syria, with some calling it the US president’s early Christmas gift to Vladimir Putin and others referring to it as the work of Russia’s...
Major acts of betrayal like selling out Ukraine or calling into question American responsibilities to its NATO allies are not the only signs of a more insidious process that is now at work in Washington: a willingness to back away from...
Vladimir Putin has convinced himself that a third world war is inevitable and that to improve Russia’s chances he must do everything he can to weaken the West in general and the United States in particular, Vladimir Pastukhov says. As a...
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to destroy the three settlements of the 20th century that the United States took the lead in arranging, settlements whose destruction...
If the last century of diplomacy teaches nothing else, it is that secret protocols and understandings are a far more dangerous outcome of summits than anything the leaders involved may actually declare, not only because these things...
But, did you know that for the first and last time, Ukraine celebrated Independence Day on July 16, 1991? The chosen date was based on the first anniversary of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, which enshrined political...
