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…
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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…
Putin’s system is irreversibly collapsing, says Piontkovsky
The future of Vladimir Putin and system of power he created will be determined in the next few…
Russian campaign against US consulate in Yekaterinburg has long history, Kirillova says
In response to the closing of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and of two trade representations in…
Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US
Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…
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…
Russia needs the US as an enemy and as a supporter, Shevtsova says
During Mikhail Gorbachev’s first visit to Washington, Georgy Arbatov, the Soviet Union’s leading Americanist who was accompanying him,…
Putin-Trump summit wasn’t a second Yalta; it was Rapallo-2, Abarinov warns
Many especially in Eastern Europe feared that the first Putin-Trump summit in Hamburg could become a second Yalta,…
Putin and Trump may have chemistry but they don’t have physics to make a deal, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may have achieved a certain “chemistry” at their meeting in Hamburg, as US…
Putin aide: Few in Kremlin expected US-Russian relations to deteriorate after Trump election
Yury Ushakov, an assistant to Vladimir Putin, told the Primakov forum this week that few in the Kremlin…
‘Russian Trumpism’ includes two different, even contradictory, strains, Smagin says
There are two very different strains in “Russian Trumpism” today which sometimes coincide and appear to be formally…
‘Trump is again OURS,’ Moscow commentators say
There has been yet another mood swing in Moscow about Donald Trump. After his election, Russian officials and…
Conflict with North Korea may be Trump’s red herring, the author of “Blowing Up Russia” says
Yuri, you said on many occasions that Trump is Putin's agent. What do you think about the US…
American CITIZENS should care about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Many commentators have now answered US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s question, “Why should US taxpayers be interested…
Trump’s Russian connections and the “Cold War” inside the USA
Trump supporters are using blackmail tactics in the USA: even if he is really guilty of unlawful ties…
Putin, like Trump, being pressed to take harder line abroad to shore up his own position, Piontkovsky says
Donald Trump, as the scandal about the multiple and continuing contacts between his team and Moscow grows, has…
The nuclear fallout of Trump’s possible détente with Putin
“We can talk about the economy, we can talk about social security—the biggest problem this world has is…
Flynn’s resignation – de-Kremlinization of the White House?
The formal reason behind the resignation of Donald Trump's national security advisor Michael Flynn was a media scandal…
Moscow doesn’t expect Trump to end sanctions all at once but ‘cleverly’ over time, Markov says
“Russophobia is so deeply rooted in European-American ideology,” Sergey Markov says, that Moscow doesn't expect new US President…