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,…
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Zhirinovsky’s final solution for Ukraine would leave rump state within NATO and the EU
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the flamboyant and often outrageous leader of the misnamed Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia, must not be…
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…
Trump-Putin bromance is far from over, despite Russia’s anti-American rhetoric
Russian experts and sociologists have noted a sharp increase in both anti-Western sentiment and anti-American rhetoric in Russian…
‘It’s the policies, stupid!’
In 1992, James Carvill, the chief strategist for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, told Democratic Party activists that they…
‘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…
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’s Russia pursuing ‘survival by paradox,’ Shevtsova says
Putin’s Russia is “a unique case” in which a country is surviving by paradox, Brookings Institution analyst Lilia…
The real danger of Artemenko’s “peace plan” for Ukraine
The so-called “Artemenko peace plan” is a much larger plot than appears at first glance. Behind the little-known…
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…
Flynngate reflects Putin’s penchant for high-risk counterproductive actions, Khzmalyan says
The growing scandal in Washington around Moscow’s efforts to penetrate and influence the Trump Administration recalls the FSB’s…
End of Kremlin’s dream of ‘Big Deal’ with Trump makes Putin more dangerous not less
Andrey Piontkovsky is undoubtedly correct that “’a big deal’” between Moscow and Washington has become “impossible” given…
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…
Trump and Ukraine: ‘a small country far away about which we know little’?
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s dismissal of Czechoslovakia as an artificial country created at Versailles and one that…
Only ‘de-Muscovization’ can save Russia from disaster, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s regime is “ideologically close” to the right-wing populism now sweeping the West in its “xenophobia, isolationism…
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…
Putin is attacking in Ukraine precisely to boost chances for ‘Big Deal’ with Trump
Some commentators are suggesting Vladimir Putin launched his latest round of aggression in Ukraine because he has gotten…