The Kremlin resumes its war against Ukraine, how should the EU react? | Marieluise Beck, German Bundestag
The arms never rested in Donbas. But now the war escalated again. The city of Avdiivka is bombarded…
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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…
Putin wants a deal with Trump because his resources are running out, Borovoy says
Many in Russia and the West have managed to convince themselves that Vladimir Putin is in a position…
Obama, whom Moscow placed great hopes in, couldn’t make a deal with Putin — because of Putin
Moscow officials and commentators have treated Barack Obama with “unconcealed hatred” at the end of his presidency, blaming…
Nuclear grand bargain unlikely but talk of it may serve Moscow’s interests
Donald Trump’s unexpected suggestion that he might lift sanctions against Russia imposed for Moscow’s invasion and occupation of…
Three Russian answers to the question ‘Is a Putin-Trump strategic alliance possible?’
Russian analysts are currently split into three distinct groups on the question of whether “a strategic alliance” will…
Outline of possible ‘Big Deal’ between Putin and Trump on Ukraine emerging, Oleshchuk says
Ukrainians and their friends and supporters have been so worried that any grand bargain between Vladimir Putin and…
25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…
A frozen conflict better for Ukraine than what Putin wants and what West may accept, Piontkovsky says
Ukraine would be far better off if it were left with a frozen conflict in which Russia openly…
World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says
Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the…
Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says
Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to the West over the plutonium issue may be “tactically clever” on his part largely…
Annexations real and imaginary
Seventy-five years ago today, Acting US Secretary of State Sumner Wells declared that the United States would not…
US moves to adopt non-recognition law on Crimea
Sergey Aksyonov, head of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea, says that the international community will recognize Crimea…
Germany does not recognize annexation of Crimea — Merkel
Germany does not recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea and considers it a dangerous violation of the international order…