Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion ‘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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion ‘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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 1 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion 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,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Is Trump’s delay in imposing new sanctions playing into a larger Moscow game to lift them? Many Russian commentators are suggesting that Donald Trump’s refusal to impose Congress-mandated sanctions on Russian leaders is an… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read International More Putin’s system is irreversibly collapsing, says Piontkovsky The future of Vladimir Putin and system of power he created will be determined in the next few… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More US sanctions on Russia effective, don’t hurt American economy, report finds A new independent report released on 22 March 2017 shows that US sanctions against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine have… byThink Tank
Read More 2 minute read More Putin has provoked US to take steps that threaten Gazprom, his own ‘purse,’ Portnikov says In advance of the G-20 summit in China, both Moscow and Washington have sent powerful signals of their… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 1 minute read International More US-Russia trade flourishes despite sanctions The sanctions against Russia are causing significant problems for European companies – by contrast, their American competitors are… byWorld Media
Read More 4 minute read Ukrainian politics Finally written off. How the West will restrain Putin According to Putin, at the G-20 summit in Australia, “the media somewhat increased the tensions,” however “reality and… byUkrainian media sources