The interest and theatre around the Helsinki meeting may be high, but meaningful negotiation is seriously restricted for many reasons.
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Despite months of speculation that Donald Trump might fire him, Robert Mueller and his investigation are not going away.
Stepping back from the current crisis in US-Russia relations, a Soviet expert asks: what’s in store for Russia in the long term, and is a peaceful transition possible when Putin’s gig is up?
While the full details of the much-anticipated Trump-Putin meeting are not yet known, it appears Donald Trump gained little while conceding much.
The US president’s sharing of sensitive information with the Russian foreign minister is not only inept, it shows an alarming lack of understanding of Russia’s role in the Syrian conflict.
The White House’s absurd rationale for firing Comey could mask something deeply disturbing.
Relations between Russia and the United States have reached an all-time low since the US strike on Syria. But Moscow knows that Washington will need its support if tension rises with North Korea.
The future of the relationship between the US and Russia depends on whether the Kremlin can find a way to interpret Trump’s motives.
US-Russia relations have hit their roughest patch since the Cold War. What’s in store for the Trump administration’s first official visit to Moscow?
The rocky relationship between Russia and the West is on a knife edge. But simple dialogue and face-to-face discussions can go a long way to easing tensions.
The slow drip of leaks about the Trump team’s Russian connections has given way to something much more threatening.
The breakdown of established liberal democratic norms has become the theme of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States. For this reason America and the White House are likely to be…
This year will likely bring a significant improvement in relations between the United States and Russia, as well as a raft of possible changes to global politics. Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin…
Losing a national security adviser is one thing – weeks and months of slow-drip crises is quite another.
For all the chatter about the Kremlin’s supposed preference for Trump over Clinton, its strategy is far from clear.
Russia has decades of experience setting “honeytraps” for spies, diplomats, and whoever else it wants to embarrass or blackmail.
As his nominee for secretary of state awaits confirmation, Donald Trump is under pressure to explain what his views on Russia actually are.
Russian interests are far from aligned with those of the West, and no amount of revisionist commentary about Russia not being ‘such a bad guy’’ after all will alter that reality.
After seeing the worst of American democracy, the outside world will have to adjust to a hugely unpredictable president.
The war of words over a bombed UN convoy in Syria is just the latest in a long series of diplomatic breakdowns.
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