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Corruption Spoils Every Attempt to Cooperate With Russia

(EDM) Following the long-expected July 7 meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the main tangible result was the…

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Russia Taking Stock on Monday After Hamburg

(EDM) Last Friday’s (July 7) meeting between President of the United States Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, was so intensely…

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Baev: Putin needs the meeting more than Trump

(KNPR) When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin on Friday, the whole world will be looking for clues as to where the fraught U.S.-Russian relationship goes next. After months of speculation…

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Four Downward Turns in US-Russian Relations

(EDM) The trajectory of the manageable but mismanaged confrontation between the United States and Russia has fluctuated since the start of the year. And this past week, it registered at least…

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New wave of protests in Russia (the old and the new)

Russia faced a new wave of popular protests on June 12 challenging the political status quo and denouncing widespread corruption. Contrary to what happened during the prior protests on March…

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Politics Dominate but Cannot Invigorate Economy in Putin’s Russia

(EDM) The St. Petersburg Economic Forum (held on June 1–3) is a one-of-a-kind high-profile event, where Russian business elites camouflage their worries through demonstrations of loyalty, and in which high-level lobbying…

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Moscow Spoils Every Opportunity to Improve Relations With US

(EDM) The Kremlin continues to cling to hopes that it can build a rapport with the Donald Trump administration; those expectations copiously developed at the start of the year, only to…

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Russia Celebrates Its Newly Revived Old-Fashioned Militarism

(EDM) On May 9, columns of tanks will roll through the streets of Moscow, followed by S-400 surface-to-air missiles in Arctic camouflage and cyclopean Topol-M inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM), to parade…

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Pressure Points: The Syria Intervention as an Instrument of Russia’s EU Policy

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. missile strike on Syria’s al-Shayrat airbase may not signify a major change in the course of the tragic civil war (as it had momentarily seemed), but…

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Putin Demands Improved Russia-US Relations

(EDM) “Big mistake”—that was how Russian President Vladimir Putin recently described the determined efforts in the United States to investigate Russia’s interference in the US elections last year. He characterized…

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Corruption Spoils Every Attempt to Cooperate With Russia

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