The U.K. prime minister and his top security adviser worked intensively to rescue the broken relationship between Kyiv and Washington, drafting a truce plan that might one day pave the way for peace. Mar 12 9 mins read Source link
The new Trump administration, however, has appeared to give up much of its negotiating leverage over Russia unilaterally. Speaking at NATO headquarters on Feb. 12, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. would not accept NATO membership for Ukraine or provide peacekeeping troops, and warned the country would not return to its pre-2014…
A date for the meeting “hasn’t been set” but it will happen in the “not too distant future,” Trump added. He suggested the meeting would involve Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “We know the crown prince, and I think it’d be a very good place to meet.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said Wednesday…
Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for more than 30 years, won a presidential election on Sunday with 86.82 percent of vote according to Belarusian state media, marking his seventh term as leader of the Eastern European country. More than half a million people have fled Belarus since Lukashenko’s last rigged election victory in 2020, which saw massive…
Pulling the country away from Russia’s sphere of influence, then, could be painful — but it’s been done before, according to Alachnovič, the economist. “Apart from Belarus, all other Central and Eastern European countries have already reoriented their econom[ies] from Russia to the West,” he said. “Poland reoriented. Bulgaria and the Baltic states reoriented. Moldova…
The Lavrov interview is Carlson’s second with a top Russian official this year. In February, Carlson went to Moscow for what was widely panned as a softball Kremlin-friendly sit-down with President Vladimir Putin. Carlson said he spoke to Lavrov to shed light on the “Russian perspective” on the ongoing war with Ukraine. Russia has waged…
The animals were transferred from the Moscow Zoo to the Pyongyang Central Zoo by plane and were accompanied by veterinarians, according to the statement. “Historically, animals always have played a special role in relations between states,” said Russian Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov, who oversaw the relocation of the animals. “They have been given as…
Explaining that he hasn’t phoned Trump himself “because the leaders of Western countries were calling me almost every week at some point, and then suddenly they stopped,” Putin added: “If any of them wants to resume contact, I have always said and I want to say again: we have nothing against it.” Asked whether he…
Let’s start with Trump: Since his first presidential campaign, the Republican candidate has enjoyed a certain level of admiration from Moscow. More precisely, Russian President Vladimir Putin admires Trump’s admiration of, well, Putin. “Putin is a short, vain man,” says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor at The New School in New York and the great-granddaughter of…
Navalnaya was sentenced in absentia to two months in prison by a Russian court in August on charges of participating in an extremist organization. She now lives outside Russia but would face immediate arrest should she return. Navalny, the sharpest thorn in Putin’s flesh over the last decade, died in February in a penal colony…