US-Russia Relations

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It’s Trump’s Last Chance to Declassify These Secrets of the Russia Collusion Dud

By Aaron Maté President Trump’s last days in office offer a final opportunity to declassify critical information on the Russia investigation that engulfed his lone term. Already voluminous public records – including investigative reports from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Congress […]

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Capitol Hill violence was not a ‘victory’ for Putin: In reality, Russia fears consequences of ongoing US political instability

By Paul Robinson Despite the fact that neither Vladimir Putin nor any other senior Moscow official has ever publicly stated such a goal, it is nowadays almost a given in Western discourse that Russia is hell-bent on creating chaos in […]

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In Washington Riot, Echoes of Post-Soviet Uprisings

In Moscow in 1993, Eastern Ukraine in 2014, and now the U.S. Capitol, there have been a similar dress code and display of banners backing seemingly lost causes. By Andrew Higgins MOSCOW — For anyone who has covered political turmoil […]

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Stephen F. Cohen on Russia’s democratization and how US meddling undermines it

Pushback rounds out 2020 by airing an unpublished interview with Stephen F. Cohen, the eminent Russia historian and scholar who passed away in September at the age of 81. By Aaron Mate In an interview recorded one year before his […]

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Will relations between old adversaries the US & Russia improve under Biden? No, they’ll only get worse

By Scott Ritter As the incoming Democrat surrounds himself with hostile Russophobes, the frosty US-Russian relationship doesn’t look likely to thaw any time soon. In anticipation, Moscow is already shifting to a policy of deterrence. In comments made to the […]

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Russia vs the Biden Administration (excerpt)

….The sad truth is that US politicians know very little about Russia, a country which they hate and fear, but not a country they even begin to understand. In this case, what US politicians will not realize is that Russia […]

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov: Russia should shift to policy of deterrence and engagement in relations with U.S.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, in an interview with Interfax, discusses a totally new Russian approach to relations with the United States, options for the New START extension and […]

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US risks confrontation with Russia

By M.K. Bhadrakumar The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov remarked last week that Moscow expects nothing good in relations with a “deeply hostile” US under the incoming administration of Joe Biden. He further said in an interview with the […]

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With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever

The U.S. media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the U.S. is depicted as aberrational. by Glenn Greenwald To justify Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Donald Trump, leading Democrats and their key media […]

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Christmas wishes for US-Russia relations: From confrontation to Win-Win cooperation

By Edward Lozansky Forget about claims that “America is back — we’re at the head of the table once again.”  Not only does this statement sound pathetic in the face of our country’s long list of internal and external problems, […]