Piontkovsky: Ukraine is being prepared for disguised surrender to Russia
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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…
Putin has outlasted ‘cowardly and corrupt Western leaders,’ Skobov says
Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind…
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…
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…
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…
Two dangerous proposals on Crimea with even more dangerous consequences
Any time a dispute lasts beyond a few weeks, it is almost inevitable that some of those involved…
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…
To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting
This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…
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…
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…