... stamina to follow the political and diplomatic marathon launched by Russia’s December initiative on security guarantees, the situation ... ..., the US-Russia consultations in Geneva and the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels have produced the preordained dose ... ... diplomatic steps forward are coupled with a show of force and absurd accusations. It seems that Washington and some of its allies have ... ... to demonstrate to the other side, may turn from a buttress of diplomacy to its kiss of death.
... situation is getting worse. This schism is expanding. Perhaps, diplomacy could help the churches not to further destroy this common ... ...
Sergey Lavrov:
You mentioned Greece’s “lukewarm” support for NATO. We have long-standing relations and historical roots with ... ... who became the first ruler of modern Greece after serving in the Russian Empire on the foreign policy front. I recently met with ... ... military personnel are there, and in large quantities. Not thousands (as some mistakenly claim sometimes), but there are several ...
Russia and the European Union need to imagine a more realistic ... ..., his dispatch to Germany for treatment, Germany’s public accusation that Russia had used a nerve agent to try to kill the opposition ... ... both sides; a security architecture centered on the OSCE, with NATO and the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization ... ... specific purpose of gaining first-hand experience with Moscow diplomacy ahead of the EU’s Russia policy review set for March ...
How could NATO and Russia improve their cooperation?
Stanley R. Sloan
has worked in and out of the U.S. government on transatlantic relations and European security for over five decades. He has served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, an analyst and research ...
... accept a role as second in command. For this reason, US plans to establish some form of NATO in the Middle East are doomed to failure. Eventually I don’t see any streamlined... ... main goal today is to end the conflict in Syria and embark on economic recovery there. Russia will not be able to do this single-handedly but from the viewpoint of the future... ... Let me repeat, this is not a coalition but the US and some of its closest allies.
Our diplomacy is very effective, especially in the Middle East. There is not a single country...
No short cut to a more constructive relationship exists
U.S.-Russian relations are not only in bad shape—very bad shape—but destructively and ... ... on the historic opportunity created when at the end of the Cold War the decades-long NATO-Warsaw Pact military standoff was dismantled, the two sides are now rapidly re-militarizing... ... registration lists and electronic poll books. This only has a chance if done through diplomacy, treating it as a question of national security—which it is—striving to...
... Assad of using chemical weapons against civilians. Fortunately, Russia and the U.S. avoided direct confrontation this time.
Earlier ... ...
Silent Ruin
”) deals with an imagined conflict between Russia and NATO countries on the territory of Eastern Europe, where Moscow ... ... questioned these official figures.
In 2017, from 70 to 150 thousand troops participated in the Zapad maneuvers,
according to ... ... countries.
Today, one should remember about the key principle of diplomacy no matter how idealistically it may sound: Russia and ...
The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because American ... ... emboldened on all these fronts.
Even during Kerry’s fastidious diplomacy, on September 19th Russia deliberately bombed a well-known ... ... Russia’s propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some unwittingly duped, others ... ... an intensely close decision; Russia has also been active in non-NATO Sweden this year, particularly when it was voting on closer ...
New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their origins. ...
... history. As Francis Fukuyama famously noted in “The End of History,” the end of the Cold War marked the end of thousands of years of ideological struggle, and the spread of Western Democratic capitalist ideals all around the world was inevitable ... ... governments balk at attempts to coordinate regional refugee and economic policies. In France, a rising far-right party funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government may possibly come to control France in the coming years. Poland seems to be ...
