Mr. Putin is no Khrushchev, and instead of losing prestige among his peers for agreeing with the Americans, he will likely gain by it.
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Waiting for Tillerson
If he has any sense of honor, Rex Tillerson will resign upon returning home from Moscow and leave Trump holding the bag of filth
Here we go again! U.S. air strikes in Syria cross Russian “red lines” and risk escalation to nuclear war
Acting tough, striking out at Russia and its allies, is not the way to form a coalition to pass a tax reform act. It is a formula for suicide.
Thinking Russia Reacts to St Petersburg Terror Attacks
From a nation of romantic philosophers, Russia is today a bastion of rationalism and pragmatism.
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Bringing the best of Russian political discourse to global audiences
Arguing the case for posting on youtube English subtitled or dubbed editions of Russia’s best talk shows
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Incredible India: Tourism and Politics
Our experience necessarily raised the question of whether India’s form of governance is not delaying by generations what it could achieve for its people if there were more discipline and common purpose at the top.
Push-back to the Washington Post feature articles on Russian talk shows by David Filipov
Filipov has gone out of his way to explain what he was doing on Russian television, lest he himself be called out as a tool of the Kremlin, and he has covered himself as well by restricting himself to discussion of the best possible show to make his point about Russian propaganda.
What do the Russians want? And how does this affect what Trump can achieve in foreign relations?
Trump is hamstrung. The Russians have noted the new situation in Washington and we hear from Russian elites more and more every day just how they plan to proceed on the international stage in the new circumstances.
Clearing space for a new foreign policy: the Establishment begins to stir
In this essay we consider why Foreign Affairs has just published an article on U.S. policy towards Russia that trashes the positions of all their featured contributors these past several years
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Have the Russians given up on Trump? Clear signals from Russia’s most authoritative media: Rossiya 1
The general mood of the talk show panelists was very confident. Not because their man is in the White House, as American media would have us believe. But as a result of what they construe as Russia’s winning hand in the Middle East
Gilbert Doctorow 