By M.K. Bhadrakumar viaThe Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated in black and white during a nationally telecast interview on June 30 that the mysterious incident a week earlier involving a British guided missile destroyer HMS Defender off Crimea in […]

By Katrina Vanden viaAs President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva for their first in-person summit of Biden’s presidency, they’ll have an opportunity to reverse a dangerous and in many ways unprecedented deterioration in relations between the […]

By Brendan Cole viaAn American historian who advised the former President Ronald Reagan about the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War, has appealed to Vladimir Putin to grant her Russian citizenship.Suzanne Massie, 90, is a Russia […]

The American press has been in the business of keeping readers ignorant since the Cold War—its most essential responsibility turned upside-down—and in our time it gets worse, not better. By Patrick Lawrence via Vladimir Putin’s annual state-of-the-nation speech, delivered before the […]

One of the central topics of the upcoming dialogue will be Ukraine, experts say Alexey Zabrodin via For the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States, a well-developed agenda is needed so that the negotiations have a […]

The leaders of the countries must show a strategic approach and find solutions similar to those adopted by John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Caribbean crisis, said the president of the American University in Moscow, Edward Lozansky. via […]

By Natylie Baldwin via The rejection of Matthew Rojansky’s candidacy as a Russia adviser to Joe Biden represents an escalation, and not a departure, from a pervasive bipartisan American pattern of dangerous ignorance about Russia in the post-Soviet era. It […]

U.S. leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers. By Chris Hedges via America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald […]

In the U.S. corporate media, the surest way to advance is to loyally spread lies and deceit from the U.S. security state. Bertrand is just the latest example. By Glenn Greenwald via The most important axiom for understanding how the U.S. […]

Matthew Rojansky was being considered for the position of Russia director on the NSC. But his possible appointment drew a wave of criticism from Russia hawks. By Natasha Bertrand via A Russia expert whose bid to join the Biden National […]