Donald Trump was not adlibbing when he said his meeting with Putin might be the easiest part of his Europe trip. That was his intention too Before he left Washington last week for the Nato summit, his UK visit and talks with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump raised eyebrows by suggesting that the meeting in Helsinki on Monday might…
In justifying her decision to commit the UK to joining the US and France in the unilateral air strikes on Syria on 14 April, PM Theresa May said in Parliament on 16 April that a requirement for UN authorisation would effectively give Russia a veto on British foreign policy. Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn called for…
General Khalifa Haftar has arrived in Moscow on an official visit to Russia for talks with Russian officials . Haftar reportedly met with senior Russian officials including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as the Russian National Security Council This is the second visit of Haftar to Russia since June when…
Russian air strikes have continued despite a withdrawal announcement last month, but civilian casualties caused by its bombs have decreased Russian planes leave Hmeimim military base as part of the partial Russian withdrawal from Syria (AFP/ RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY/VADIM GRISHANKIN) The Kremlin’s six-month campaign in Syria resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100…
US officials expressed frustration that Assad is trying to set his own rules about which opponents he is prepared to talk to File photo shows US Secretary of State John Kerry (AFP) US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Moscow on Tuesday to meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and urge him…
By DMITRI TRENIN MOSCOW — Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine and the Ukrainian opposition leaders signed an agreement on Friday that ended the deadly protests in Kiev by promising a new constitution and early elections. But the Russian president’s envoy to Kiev refused to co-sign it. While Moscow welcomed an end to the violence, it basically viewed the agreement…
by Pepe Escobar So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil). Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the…
The last head of state of the Soviet Union warned the US of an imminent Soviet-like collapse if Washington persists with its hegemonic policies. Speaking in Istanbul, Gorbachev noted that disintegration was the atonement that the former Soviet Union made for its mistakes and the same fate awaits the US. posted December 15, 2012 by…
by Noam Chomsky posted October 17, 2012 by ZNET The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended — though…
