Amidst seemingly easing tensions, Putin leaves much unsaid in speech to parliament
The first glazed-over item on this list is the sharp escalation of the Ukraine crisis caused by the…
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US sanctions against Russia
Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov says
He's going to act from the position of strength, which involves the use of sanctions and pressure on…
Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…
The toxic myth of “understanding and engaging” Russia
Recent western attempts to help "solve" the conflict in Donbas Russia’s war against Ukraine in Donbas is understandingly…
Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…
Pandemic adding to burdens sanctions have imposed on Moscow for seizing Crimea, Umland says
The logic of the sanctions regime the West imposed on Moscow after Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea was not…
Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag's ruling coalition to change the…
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…
Portnikov: A big war and the “streams”
The US Senate Committee on International Affairs supported the introduction of sanctions against the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline…
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…
‘As long as Trump’s in the White House, Putin will remain in the Kremlin,’ Nemets says
Many Western and some Russian commentators have seriously misread what the new American sanctions have done to the…
Many Russians will welcome harsh Western actions against oligarchs, Skobov says
One of the “most popular” arguments Putin supporters in the West use against the imposition of sanctions against…
Trump may negotiate with Putin for the same reasons he’s talking with Kim Jong-Un, Novoye Voennoye Obozreniye suggests
The editors of Novoye voyennoye obozreniye, the military affairs supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta, suggest that the trajectory of…
Shevtsova: Moscow far more worried about Trump than many in the West think
Many Russian and Western analysts dismissed “the Kremlin list” the Trump Administration released two weeks ago as a…
‘Kremlin List’ – as published – discredits US and helps Putin, Illarionov says
The decision by the Trump Administration to substitute at the last minute a list compiled from other publicly…
‘In the interests of national security, US sanctions against Russia may be lifted’
Talks between representatives of two governments are often not about what the participants say they are and sometimes…
Kremlin isn’t panicking over new sanctions the way many are suggesting, Nemets says
Many commentators in Russia and the West are suggesting that Moscow is panicking about the consequences of the…
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…
Trump ‘playing for Russian side’ now, Moscow commentator says
US President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to delay the implementation of Congressionally-mandated sanctions on Russia,…
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…