‘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…
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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,…
Putin’s meddling in US elections backfiring on his own allies at home and on Americans who helped them, Shevtsova says
The Kremlin’s effort to affect the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections has provoked one consequence Moscow…
Russian info war against US, far broader than last year’s elections, an act of terrorism, Latynina says
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again acceptance of Vladimir Putin’s claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 US presidential…
US, China have more in common than either has with Russia, regardless of leader’s feelings, Shelin says
However much Moscow suggests otherwise and however much inertia still leads others to share its conclusions, the United…
Russian-American relations will fundamentally change on February 2, Piontkovsky says
The August 2, 2017 law to counter Russian aggression requires that the Trump Administration identify in a report…
Putin blames West for all of Russia’s problems but refuses to criticize Trump
Speaking to this year’s Valdai Conference, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech blaming the West for all of Russia’s…
Is Trump’s delay in imposing new sanctions playing into a larger Moscow game to lift them?
Many Russian commentators are suggesting that Donald Trump’s refusal to impose Congress-mandated sanctions on Russian leaders is an…
Korean crisis seen opening a way for new Trump-Putin rapprochement
Short of war, the largest fallout from the intensifying Korean crisis is likely to be a new rapprochement…
To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting
This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…
Russia joins Iran and North Korea on US ‘axis of evil’ list, Kommersant says
In his State of the Union address in January 2002, then-US President George W. Bush said Iran, Iraq…
