Foreign Policy

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America’s Awkward Energy Insecurity Problem

With the (sort of) end of Russian uranium imports, a challenge looms: How to fuel the next generation of reactors?

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VIDEO: Germany Has Learned The Wrong Lessons Of History, with Prof. Dan Bednarz

An outsider view of East and West German society, trying to understand the differences.

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Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi discuss their close ties in chat after Trump’s inauguration

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and emphasized their close ties a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president.

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Putin Is Not Yet Desperate

Economic Pain Won’t Turn the Tide in Ukraine

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ACURA Exclusive: Pietro A. Shakarian: The Russo-Persian Partnership Pact: Significance and Implications

At the end of 1829, the social scene in St. Petersburg was abuzz about a charming young Persian prince, who had traveled from Tabriz to the Russian Imperial capital with gifts for Tsar Nicholas I and the Romanov family. The journey of Iran’s Khosrow Mirza, the seventh son of Crown Prince `Abbas Mirza, was intended to repair relations between Tehran and Petersburg, following the murder of the diplomat and writer, Aleksandr Griboedov. The mission was major diplomatic success and set the stage for a long-term rapprochement between Russia and Persia, following two major wars over control of the Caucasus in the early 19th century.

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The Walking Dead. End of the season.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

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Learning the Real Lessons of Yalta to Prevent World War III

We are approaching yet another epochal anniversary with lessons crucial for the survival and revival of the human race: February 4 to February 11 will mark the 80th anniversary of the most successful peace conference in history – and therefore the most reviled, despised and misunderstood one. The Yalta Summit of 1945.

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Dmitry Trenin: Why 2025 is going to be more dangerous than you think

One of Russia’s top foreign policy experts selects the main things to watch this year

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Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic seabed energy and communications lines.

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Trump advisers concede Ukraine peace deal is months away

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise – to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House.