Moscow celebrates another disgraceful American concession after Helsinki
Major acts of betrayal like selling out Ukraine or calling into question American responsibilities to its NATO allies…
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Putin’s vision and goals make any serious agreement with him impossible, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Putin has convinced himself that a third world war is inevitable and that to improve Russia’s chances…
Trump has done more than collude with Putin: he’s helped Kremlin leader destroy post-1945 world
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to…
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-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…
Putin is consistent but the West isn’t, Portnikov says
At the very moment that the international investigation of the downing of the Malaysian jetliner concluded that Moscow…
‘The world has stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin,’ Shevtsova says
Polls show that countries around the world not only have stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin…
A military coup against Putin–although unlikely–cannot now be excluded, Felgenhauer says
Tensions within the Russian political elite are now higher than at any point in years, Pavel Felgenhauer says;…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Kyiv must create an International Day in Memory of Victims of Russian Aggression, Ukrainian commentator says
The current conflict between Russia and the West provide an opportunity to create an International Day of Memory…
In Skripal case, Kremlin following procedures it used for earlier political murders, Pastukhov says
At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact,…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Putin listening to both “party of war” and “party of peace” within his regime, Felgenhauer says
Vladimir Putin is listening both to “a peace party” within his administration and “a war party,” responding positively…
Russian media have published 20 different narratives on Skripal poisoning
As British investigators probe the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, international consensus continues to…
Putin is uniting Europe
The European Union, whose destabilization has been one of the main goals of Putin's foreign policy, exists and…
Behind the smokescreen: who are the actors spreading disinformation on ex-Russian spy Skripal?
Now, it is time to look behind the smokescreen that pro-Kremlin disinformation is puffing around. Who are the…
Putin has come out a winner in the Skripal Case, Kirillova says
Many people are looking at the tough language that London and other Western capitals have used to denounce…
Moscow’s development of poisons like one used against Skripal has long history and dark shadow
Felix Kubin, a Russian who defected to the US in 2013, says that he was approached before that…