Consequences of restoring Russia’s voting rights in PACE
What the confirmation of Russia’s voting right means Yelyzaveta Yasko, head of the Ukrainian Delegation to PACE, names…
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sanctions against Russia
Portnikov: Crimea and the “confrontation of superpowers”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg linked Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula with the confrontation of superpowers. This…
Sanctions matter even if they won’t change Putin’s policies because ending them would lead to disasters
Sanctions against Moscow for its violation of international law in Ukraine are important and worth maintaining as a…
Europeans will continue or even boost sanctions on Russia even though many don’t want to, Portnikov says
The decision of the EU to continue but not increase sanctions against Russia represents the current “European consensus”…
Victory Day celebrations “Immortal Regiment”: Russia’s “special operation”
Below we shall look at only the most evident, obvious arguments that indicate the fallacy of such a…
Germany, Norway deliver ilmenite ore to occupied Crimea in sanctions breach
Every month, ilmenite is delivered by sea to the Kerch port of Kamysh-Burun in the east of occupied…
Top Moscow bank to stop servicing sanctioned Russian defense firms
Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia’s seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will…
Germany bears main brunt of EU sanctions against Russia
According to the study, the German economy suffers by far the largest export losses among the Western Nations…
Failure of Kremlin’s ‘Trump is Ours’ plan leading it to rethink Ukraine policy, Piontkovsky says
The failure of Vladimir Putin to get a sit down with Donald Trump represents “the agony of [the…
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…
Arms race, on top of sanctions, destroyed the USSR and will destroy Russia
Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources,…
Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions
Facing ever greater difficulty in raising money in the West because of sanctions and calls by its own…
Putting Kyiv’s decision on Russian social media in context
Moscow and Western officials and commentators have sharply criticized Kyiv’s decision to block access to Russian social media,…
Armenia is the Vichy France of today, Khzmalyan says
Armenia now is like Vichy France in the early 1940s, Tigran Khzmalyan says, “an occupied country” governed by…
European Parliament: Russia should free all the illegally imprisoned Ukrainians #LetMyPeopleGo
In the resolution adopted on 16 March 2017, the EP deplores the lack of freedom of expression and…
Rest assured, Marine Le Pen, sanctions against Russia work
To hear Marine Le Pen talk, sanctions against Russia don’t work, and she stands a decent chance of…
An agreement with Putin is an agreement with the devil – Ukraine’s vice-PM on European integration
It has been mostly bad news for Ukraine lately. Thousands of civilians found themselves caught between frost and…
The Trump administration eases sanctions against Russia
The USA’s Treasury Department has allowed American companies to interact with Russia’s Security Service, the FSB, in order…
How improving relations with Russia threatens world peace
The topic of lifting sanctions against the Russian Federations appears on the international agenda more and more often.…
The illusory plans for US-Russian reconciliation
Putin is at war with the US, not with Ukraine. And his victory over the US will depend…