The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trump’s “immediate entourage” during the American presidential campaign, one of Russia’s top diplomats said Thursday.
“There were contacts,” Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. “We continue to do this and have been doing this work during the election campaign,” he said.
Mr. Ryabkov said officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry...
Ukraine is unlikely to be one of President-elect Donald Trump’s main foreign-policy priorities, when set against other issues such as China and the fight against international terrorism. Trump also sees the Ukrainian situation as a primarily European problem to be dealt with by European leaders....
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has generated an enormous amount of speculation about the future of US foreign policy. Indeed, the campaign rhetoric of the president-elect featured a large number of high-profile statements....
What decisions can we expect from Donald Trump’s new team on the Middle East? The further aggravation of the situation in Syria, the U.S. policy with respect to its allies as well as the problem of the Iranian nuclear programme all remain highly topical issues on the Middle East ...
Europe and Russia are anticipating an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration
For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future ...
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections came as a surprise to many. European politicians have openly expressed concern about the uncertain future of trans-Atlantic relations. The Russian International Affairs Council reached out ...
... in all the textbooks as an absolutely exceptional event in the American political life.
Before our eyes a popular uprising against the national establishment started and won - without any exaggeration. All the country’s elite was united against Donald Trump. Democrats and Republicans. Financial corporations of the Wall Street and Silicon Valley venture capital firms. The national media and leading Kulturtraegers. Universities, foundations, Nobel Prize winners in economics, and the vast majority ...
With Donald Trump coming to power in the United States, the likelihood of a paradigm shift in foreign policy remains low. Judging by the declared conceptual objectives of his foreign policy, it is Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton who will serve as the ...
Interview with Igor Ivanov
In an interview for the
Interfax
news agency, Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (from 1998 to 2004) shared his thoughts on the U.S. presidential election’s results, pointing out the areas Russia’s future dialogue with the new administration should be dedicated to.
What are your thoughts about the results of the presidential election?
First of all, I would like...
... alleged that President Putin was looking to exact "revenge" on the US for a string of color revolutions which Washington had helped to stage along Russia's borders over the last decade-and-a-half. For this, WP claimed, the Kremlin was using Donald Trump, who has helped to spread a mood of protest and discontent in US society, while undermining its important institutions, including the electoral process itself.
Asked to comment on the regularity and insouciance with which such accusations ...
