Trump considers NATO deal with Putin, potentially to block Ukraine’s NATO accession
A potential second Trump term could see a dramatic reduction in America's role in NATO, with European allies expected to shoulder more of the burden.
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Piontkovsky: Ukraine is being prepared for disguised surrender to Russia
Q: Perhaps one of the most significant international events of the autumn was the statement of the French…
Portnikov: Crimea and the Big Seven
President of the United States Donald Trump talks about the advisability of Russia’s participation in what was called…
Portnikov: Putin’s return must be resisted
The proposal by US President Donald Trump to return his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the G8, of…
Trump’s Golan Heights decision unsettles post-Soviet space
US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a region Israeli forces seized…
Five years after Anschluss, US moves toward a formal non-recognition policy on Crimea
US leaders like their EU counterparts since Vladimir Putin invaded and then annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 have…
Putin has three goals in playing nuclear card against West now, Kirillova says
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what…
Putin takes a page from North Korea’s playbook against Trump, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s sabre rattling in his presidential address was intended to tempt Donald Trump into acting he has…
Moscow commentator: ‘Trump’s policy completely corresponds to Russia’s national interests’
Russian commentators are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to pull American forces from Syria, with some calling it the…
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…
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 and Trump aren’t conservatives: they’re reactionaries, Golts says
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have managed to convince many others and perhaps even themselves that they are…
Trump’s summit with Putin constitutes an ‘unprecedented act of betrayal,’ Eidman says
Even before it takes place and US President Donald Trump makes concessions to Vladimir Putin in exchange for…
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 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…
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…
