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Kakachia: Georgia remains a steadfast supporter of U.S. initiatives but is unlikely to want to get drawn into a US-Iran conflict

(Eurasianet) A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting the Caucasus, where he is expected to try to enlist the region’s three governments in Washington’s campaign of isolating Iran.…

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Podvig: Russia will say that it was U.S. intent from the very beginning to pull out of the INF treaty

(TIME) President Donald Trump revealed Saturday the United States intends to withdraw from a 31-year-old nuclear weapons agreement with Russia, delivering a severe blow to the arms control regime that helped…

Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status

(PONARS Policy Memo) For many U.S. and Western observers, Russia has emerged as the most aggressive and assertive challenger to U.S. leadership and the American-led liberal world order. Russia’s annexation of…

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Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria

(EDM) The Russian Ministry of Defense did not wait long to deliver its promised S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria. On the night of October 3, a huge An-124 Ruslan transport plane…

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Kramer: Putin has been to the US and met with US leaders many times, none of this has made him warm up to the United States

(Polygraph.info) In an op-ed published on the English language website of the Russian state-owned outlet RT.com, John Wight, a regular RT contributor, argued that visiting the United States might give Russian…

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What Is To Be Done?

(Moscow-on-Thames) Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s irrepressible spokesman, said today that Russia would like to know what it could do to get sanctions reduced. This, of course, set tongues wagging, both in Russia…

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Darden: Trump fears there is kompromat out there—maybe a lot of it

(Forbes) On returning to Washington, he heard from both parties that for the first time in the history of the United States, an American president had been unwilling to defend the…

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US-Russian Discord Over Syria Deepens After Discussions in Helsinki

(EDM) The fruits of President Vladimir Putin’s “victory” at the meeting with President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, are turning increasingly bitter for Russia as initial dismay and…

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Putin the hero

(The Conversation) After U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented performance at a press conferencewith Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit on July 16, Trump was criticized across the political spectrum for apparently…

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Did Putin Overplay His Hand in Helsinki?

(EDM) The summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last Monday (July 16) continues to generate strong international resonance, despite apparently producing few if any tangible results. In…

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U.S.-Russian Relations

Kakachia: Georgia remains a steadfast supporter of U.S. initiatives but is unlikely to want to get drawn into a US-Iran conflict

Podvig: Russia will say that it was U.S. intent from the very beginning to pull out of the INF treaty

Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status

Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria

Kramer: Putin has been to the US and met with US leaders many times, none of this has made him warm up to the United States

What Is To Be Done?

Darden: Trump fears there is kompromat out there—maybe a lot of it

US-Russian Discord Over Syria Deepens After Discussions in Helsinki

Putin the hero

Did Putin Overplay His Hand in Helsinki?