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Lure of the north: What Russia’s Arctic can offer Trump
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Putin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.
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Geoffrey Roberts – Yalta and the Myth of Spheres of Influence
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Col. Douglas Macgregor: The Case Against Supporting Ukraine
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Putin’s upcoming India visit indicates deeper ties despite global shifts
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to visit India in the near future, marking his first trip to the South Asian nation since December 2021. According to a report by TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed the upcoming visit while speaking at a Russia International Affairs Council(RIAC) forum. However, neither the Kremlin nor the Russian Foreign Ministry – including Lavrov – has announced any specific dates.
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Europe prepares itself for all-out war with Russia
Are you prepared?
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Europe’s Desperate Gambit
Ukraine’s battlefronts and army continue to slowly crumble under the pressure of the Russian army’s advance east. The Maidan regime is beginning to eat itself. Yuliya Tymoshenko is being courted by Kiev’s former key backer, Donald Trump’s new America. Former president and Zelenskiy-indicted opposition leader Petro Poroshenko calls Zelenskiy “a dictator.” Kiev’s Mayor Vitaliy Klichko and Zelenskiy’s former aide Oleksiy Arestovich have done much the same, and the latter has announced his intent to run for president. And well-armed neofascist army units, some at the corps level, await their moment to ‘finish Ukraine’s nationalist revolution, which the oligarch-dominated Maidan regime, they say, only began.
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Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation
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A Third Way to end the war in Ukraine
In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements who rule the roost in Kiev are a formidable obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. For Johnson, this might be a blame game to absolve himself of responsibility, given his own dubious role as then PM (in cahoots with President Joe Biden) in undermining the Istanbul agreement in April 2022 to rev up the simmering conflict and turn it to a full-fledged US-led proxy war against Russia.
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Europe’s Misguided Interventions
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Yalta 2.0 Needed Now!
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How Russia Challenged the NWO–Interview with Prof. Edward Lozansky
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America’s Central Europe Allie Do Not Make the US Stronger and More Secure
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Foreign Policy
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German leaders miscalculated popular will for war spending
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Lure of the north: What Russia’s Arctic can offer Trump
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Putin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.
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Geoffrey Roberts – Yalta and the Myth of Spheres of Influence
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Col. Douglas Macgregor: The Case Against Supporting Ukraine
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VIDEO: Amb. Jack Matlock: Negotiating an End to the Cold War & Instigating a New Cold War
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Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation
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Sometimes, Appeasement Is the Best Option
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New York Times Fantasy Tale of Ukraine’s Almost Great Victory Over Russia
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The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
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US Seeks to Control Ukraine Investment, Squeezing Out Europe
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World Focus: Resetting the clock with Russia
Edward Lozansky was a Soviet nuclear physicist who during the height of the Cold War became a dissident.
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VIDEO: Rand Paul Questions Marco Rubio About Possibility Of Ukraine Joining NATO
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Celebrating 1982: A Pivotal Year
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A New Age for US-Russia Arctic Cooperation?
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Trump-Putin call is a positive step towards peace
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Trump’s Empty Threats to Pressure Russia Falling on Deaf Ears
This will be short and simple — Donald Trump’s reported threat to expand sanctions on Russia if it does not halt attacks on Ukraine is empty and meaningless. As you will see in the following videos, I am currently in Moscow and participating in some public diplomacy seminars. What I have gleaned as a result of conversations with some well-informed Russian analysts is that the era of the United States being able to bully or coerce Russia is over. Donald Trump now confronts a Russia, with a government, an economy and a military, that does not need a single thing from the United States beyond mutual respect. The Russian people are prepared to live a comfortable, productive life without having to deal with the United States. That is a truth that Donald Trump needs to grasp.
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White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say
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Ending the second Cold War between Russia and the West
DEFEATING THE NEW COLD WARS – Jonathan Power’s weekly column on foreign affairs
Аbout Vladimir Emelyanovich Maximov
Vladimir Emelyanovich Maximov (Russian: Владимир Емельянович Максимов, born Lev Alexeyevich Samsonov, Лев Алексеевич Самсонов; 27 November 1930, — 26 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, essayist and editor, one of the leading figures of the Soviet and post-Soviet dissident movement abroad.
Biography
Born in Moscow into a working class family, Lev Samsonov spent an unhappy childhood in and out of orphanages and colonies after his father was prosecuted in 1937 during the anti-Trotskyism purge. He went to Siberia to travel there under an assumed name, Vladimir Maximov (to become later his pen name), spent time in jails and labour camps, then worked as a bricklayer and construction worker. In 1951 he settled in one of the Kuban stanitsas and started to write short stories and poems for local newspapers. His debut book Pokolenye na chasakh (Generation on the Look-out) came out in Cherkessk in 1956.
In 1956 Maximov returned to Moscow and published, among other pieces, the short novel My obzhivayem zemlyu (We Harness the Land, 1961) telling the story of Siberian hobos, courageous, but deeply troubled men, trying to find each their own way of settling down into the unfriendly Soviet reality. It was followed by Zhiv chelovek (Man is Alive). The former caught the attention of Konstantin Paustovsky who included it into his almanac Pages from Tarusa. The latter found its champion in Vsevolod Kochetov who in 1962 published it in Oktyabr, which he was then in charge of. It was met with both public and critical acclaim and was produced in 1965 by the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. In 1963 Maximov became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and in the mid-1960s joined the Oktyabr magazine's staff. All the while, though, his literary output was getting harsher, darker and more pessimistic.
Two of Maximov's early 1970s novels, Sem dnei tvorenya (Seven Days of Creation, 1971) and The Quarantin (1973) proved to be the turning point of his career. On the one hand, in retrospect they marked the high point of his creativity. On the other, steeped with the longing for Christian ideals and skeptical as to the viability of the Communist morality, both went against the grain of the norms and the criteria of Socialist realism. They were rejected by all Soviet publishers, came out in Samizdat, were officially banned and got their author into serious trouble. In June 1973 he was expelled from the Writers' Union, and spent several months in a psychiatric ward. In 1974 Maximov left the country to settle in Paris, and in October 1975 was stripped of the Soviet citizenship.
In 1974 Maximov launched the literary, political and religious magazine Kontinent to take up what many saw as the Hertzen-founded tradition of supporting the Russian literature in exile. It became the center point of Russian intellectual life in Western Europe, attracting such diverse authors as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Galich, Viktor Nekrasov, Joseph Brodsky and Andrey Sakharov, the latter describing Maximov as "the man of unwavering honesty." Maximov remained the magazine's editor-in-chief up until 1992, when, during one of his visits to Moscow, he transferred it to Russia and granted all rights to his colleagues in Moscow. He was also the head of the executive committee of the international anti-communist organization Resistance International.
Among Maximov's best-known works written in France were the novels Kovcheg dlya nezvanykh (The Arc for the Uninvited, 1976), telling the story of the Soviet development of the Kuril Islands after the World War II, an autobiographical dilogy Proshchanye iz niotkuda (Farewell from Nowhere, 1974—1982), and Zaglyanut v bezdnu (To Look Into the Abyss, 1986), the latter having as its theme Alexander Kolchak's romantic life. All three, based upon historical documents, portrayed Bolshevism as a doctrine of ruthlessness, amorality and political voluntarism. He authored several plays on the life of Russians in emigration, among them Who's Afraid of Ray Bradbury? (Кто боится Рэя Брэдбери?, 1988), Berlin at the Night's End (Берлин на исходе ночи,1991) and There, Over the River... (Там, за рекой, 1991).
The drastic change in political situation in his homeland and the fall of the Soviet Union left Maximov unimpressed. He switched to criticizing the new Russia's regime and, while still a staunch anti-Communist, started to published his diatribes aimed at Egor Gaidar-led liberal reforms regularly in the Communist Pravda, to great disdain of some of his friends.