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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Ambassador Matlock had a key role in negotiating an end to the Cold War, and he explores how the post-Cold War peace was lost.

​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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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.

History and events have not been kind to Russia. Napoleon’s invasion, revolution, two world wars, Hitler’s invasion, Stalin’s communism and, most recently, the expansion of Nato, have shattered the Russian people’s equilibrium and self-regard time and time again.

At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congratulated themselves on reinserting Europe into the peace process opened up by President Trump. In practice, they have done their best to derail it.

MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) – Russia and the United States have started talks on joint rare earth metals and other projects in Russia, and some companies have already expressed an interest in them, President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy said in remarks published on Monday.