Vladimir Putin won China’s support on the main issues fueling the Ukrainian crisis and pitting Russia against Western countries, while European diplomatic efforts to avert conflict are intensifying. On the occasion of the meeting between the Russian president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, the two countries published a joint statement criticizing US […]
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Putin: US and allies ignore Russia’s security demands
Updated on 02/01/2022 04:04 pm Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States and its allies have ignored Russia’s main security demands, but added that Moscow remains open to further talks with the West on how to reduce tensions over Ukraine. In his first remarks on the standoff with the West over Ukraine in more […]
Russian media pressured to suppress content linked to Navalni
Several Russian media outlets said they had removed, under pressure from Russian government authorities, articles linked to investigations into imprisoned opponent Alexei Navalny, in particular one on “Vladimir Putin’s palace.” Seven outlets, including Dojd, Meduza, Znak, Echoes of Moscow, Svobodnie Novosti, The Village, and Bumaga said they received notifications from the Roskomnadzor telecommunications control office, […]
Russia and Ukraine, a history of rivalries
Russia Y Ukraine are immersed in a crisis that threatens to provoke a new military conflict due to accusations that the government of Vladimir Putin is preparing an invasion of its pro-Western neighbor. The current tensions have historical roots. Here is a summary in five chapters. common roots The two countries share a thousand-year history, […]
Russian government considers the idea of US sanctions against Putin “destructive”
Russia’s government has warned that imposing sanctions on President Vladimir Putin would not hurt him personally but would be “politically destructive” after US President Joe Biden said he would consider such a move in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden said Tuesday that personal sanctions on PutinAlthough they are an unusual move, […]
Russian government denounces “hysteria” about its alleged plans to deploy weapons in Cuba and Venezuela
Updated on 01/21/2022 10:50 am The Russian government denounced the “hysteria” of the West about its alleged plans to deploy military infrastructure in Cuba and Venezuela, and argued that this shows the “arrogant mentality” of the West, which thinks it can do anything and Russia any. “A whole hysteria broke out among Western experts and […]
The West must deny Russia its ‘sphere of influence’
Andreas Kluth We have been here countless times in history. Once again, diplomats from great and antagonistic powers meet to decide the fate of nations that do not even sit at the table. Some hope to avoid war. Others are betting that war, or the threat of it, is a fair price to pay to […]
The Russian NGO Memorial, chronicler of the repression from Stalin to Putin
For three decades, the iconic Memorial NGO has documented the purges of the Stalinist era and then the repression of contemporary Russia from Vladimir Putin, of which she herself has ended up being a victim. The Russian Supreme Court last Tuesday ordered the dissolution of Memorial for violating a controversial law on “foreign agents”, a […]
Putin is betting on all or nothing in his security order to the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains his order on security matters to the United States and NATO after speaking with the head of the White House, Joe Biden, who warned that new sanctions for an escalation in Ukraine would entail the “ total ”breakdown of relationships. “If within a reasonable period of time we do not […]
Biden and Putin cross harsh warnings on Ukraine
The American President, Joe Biden, and its Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, they held a telephone conversation on Thursday in which the differences between the two parties became clear amid escalating tensions in Ukraine, on whose border the Russian Army has recently been concentrating forces. President Biden urged Russia to reduce tensions in Ukraine. He made […]