Foreign Policy

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NATO should call on US to extend New START Treaty, says Russian diplomat

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg should urge the United States extend the New START Treaty, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday. She recalled that Stoltenberg had said earlier he planned to discuss approaches to the arms control […]

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Nuclear war between US & Russia more likely as Americans ‘share’ bombs with European NATO members

Russia has called for the US to halt the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of NATO’s European members, arguing it both violates the terms of existing treaties and makes a devastating conflict more likely to happen. Deputy FM […]

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A Successful U.S. Missile Intercept Ends the Era of Nuclear Stability

Deterrence no longer works when one power can shoot down incoming nukes. This makes disarmament talks even more urgent. By Andreas Kluth This month, an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired in the general direction of the Hawaiian islands. During its […]

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A Biden presidency and US-Russia relations. The new US administration will certainly push back harder on the Kremlin, but there may also be chances for engagement.

By Ian Hill Ian Hill is a retired senior career diplomat in the New Zealand foreign ministry. In the course of his 42 years in the diplomatic service, Mr Hill served three times in Moscow, twice as Ambassador (2009–12 and […]

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Joe Biden vs. Henry Kissinger. Biden’s harsh anti-Russian rhetoric should not be taken literally

By Andrey Kortunov Ph.D. in History, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member America’s foreign political discourse has long featured Russia and China as the principal geopolitical threats to the U.S. Often, no distinction is drawn between […]

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Letter: Obama’s reset of Russia ties offers lesson for Biden

From Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Philip Stephens (“The case for a Biden-Putin thaw”, Opinion, November 20) is wrong to state that Barack Obama’s “reset” with Russia “went nowhere”. It was quite a successful policy turn that […]

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In Memory of Stephen Cohen

Earlier this year, our friend and colleague Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come. Professor Cohen was a historian, but his legacy extends far beyond his […]

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ELECTION 2020: Biden Will Fail to Bring Back ‘Normal’ Politics

By Jonathan Cook Analysts are still grappling with the fallout from the U.S. election. Trumpism proved a far more enduring and alluring phenomenon than most media pundits expected. Defying predictions, President Donald Trump improved his share of the overall vote compared […]

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9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results

By Joel B. Pollak Rudy Giuliani and other lawyers representing President Donald Trump’s campaign outlined their case Thursday that the Nov. 3 presidential election was so deeply flawed in several key states that the results should be overturned in the […]

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Macron’s outreach to Russia part of his De Gaulle-like plan to free France & EU partners from status as vassals of Washington

By Glenn Diesen, an Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Russia and France have different objectives, yet both recognise the need to push back against Turkey’s expansionism, the intrusive […]