http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/opinion/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-russia.html
According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Kremlin is "still enigmatic, but no longer strategic." Kremlin policy is now "fashioned rather like the music of a jazz group; its continuing improvisation is an attempt to survive the latest ...
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/d%C3%A9tente-plus-how-should-west-deal-russia
“Leslie Gelb speaks for much of the US foreign policy establishment, writes Walter Laquer, “when he says that ... ‘It is totally unrealistic . . . to think that the West can gain desired Russian restraint and cooperation without ...
... the unexpected visit of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to Moscow and the sharp increase of diplomatic activity surrounding the Syrian crisis – made the meeting all the more relevant.
Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin elaborated on his vision of settling the Syrian crisis. And this vision appears to reflect Russia’s overall approach to creating a new world order. It has to be said that against the backdrop of the numerous declarative, ambiguous ...
... can change these rules listen to the opinion of the Valdai experts?
Some decision-makers attend the Valdai Club conferences. Vladimir Putin usually addresses the closing plenary session. He has done so 11 times, and we hope he’ll do it this year ... ... but it’s a fact that he knows about the issues on our agenda.
Do the Valdai experts’ opinions carry weight beyond Russia?
People beyond Russia are most of all interested in the president’s address. However, the Valdai Club has changed ...
Putin is one of the favorite topics in the Western media. While in office, the Russian president has been put under the microscope from different angles. Many attempts at creating his psychological portrait and discovering his identity have been undertaken in order to understand what is to be expected from Putin’s Russia. ...
The United States is unlikely to introduce new sanctions against Moscow after Monday’s meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama in New York, Russian MP and political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov has said.
"The main outcome of this meeting [of Putin and Obama] is preventing the further deterioration of relations that was possible ...
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... by CBS News comes into play. CBS has been, historically, an important propaganda asset of the government of the United States dating back to World War II..
The study reveals that the United States since 2008 has been at work creating the image of Russian president Vladimir V. Putin as an unstable leader with a genetic history of mental illness.
If one is to believe CBS, the leaked study claims that all decisions made by Vladimir Putin reflect the need for “extreme control” because the Kremlin leader suffers from a controversial behavioral disorder discovered by Hans Arsperger, a pediatrician in Nazi-era Austria, who linked childhood autism with an inherited ...
A second meeting between Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin will take place on 10 June in Rome on the occasion of the Russian President
’s visit to the Milan World Exposition — Expo 2015. There is no doubt that Putin’s trip to Italy has the primary objective of reaffirming the relevance of Russian-Italian relations under the circumstances of the current ...
... of views both in foreign policy and on the ideological and value orientation. Just think of the war in Yugoslavia and in Kosovo, when the Holy See and the Kremlin shared opposition to the US and NATO strategy in the Balkans.
With the rise to power of Vladimir Putin the relation between Russia and the Vatican has gradually strengthened, combining pragmatic convergences on various issues of international politics to a strategic and ideological vision with several points in common. Such approach could have even stronger connotations during ...