US-Russia Relations

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The U.S. and Russia have a rare opportunity to work together on a peace deal

By David Ignatius Here’s an interesting trivia point for diplomacy watchers: Russia and the United States, usually bitter antagonists, are co-chairs of a group that’s seeking to broker a peace deal between two nations involved in a not-so-trivial war. This […]

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The ‘Primary Subsource’s’ Guide to Russiagate, as Told to the FBI

By Eric Felten Much of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Donald Trump was built on the premise that Christopher Steele and his dossier were to be believed. This even though, early on, Steele’s claims failed to bear scrutiny. Just how […]

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Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

By Martin Sieff Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivostok on the Pacific. Half […]

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Real Russiagate bombshell: FBI knew Steele dossier was fiction, Strzok notes show NYTimes reporting ‘misleading and inaccurate’

New documents show the FBI was aware that the infamous dossier used as a pretext to spy on President Donald Trump’s campaign was unreliable, and that the New York Times published false information about the ‘Russiagate’ probe. The two documents […]

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New Sanctions Challenge the Tenuous Ties Between America and Russia

Peaceful coexistence remains an imperative, no matter how unsavory Putin’s regime might be.

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How the Media Mangled the ‘Russian Invasion’ of the Trump Administration The willingness of the press to circulate any account that puts Russia in a bad light has not diminished with the collapse of the Russia-Trump collusion narrative.

by Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, is the author of twelve books and more than 850 articles on international affairs. His […]

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The Washington Post and Its Cold War Drums

By Melvin Goodman The Washington Post has taken its Cold War campaign against China, Russia, and Iran to a new level.  In the Sunday edition of its Outlook section, the Post gave front-page coverage to long articles by former ambassador Michael McFaul and former New […]

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Fake story on Russians paying Afghans ‘bounty’ to kill Americans latest example of appalling US/UK media coverage of Russia

By Bryan MacDonald The Anglo-American press is difficult to understand. Anonymous sources are treated as gospel – when they suit the ideological and political biases of news outlets – and spy agencies seem to be beyond reproach. This, of course, […]