Category: 1. Russia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump entered the presidency with an unambiguous message to the world: “America First.” Now, just over 100 days into his second term, that foreign policy doctrine — marked by skepticism toward allies, disdain for…

Clifford May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative national security-focused think tank. In a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL, May argued that US President Donald Trump’s “America First”…

In early May, Russia’s Security Council published a collection of propaganda essays dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II. Federal politicians, top security officials, and Kremlin aides contributed,…

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sacked Russia’s chief of land forces, General Oleg Salyukov, the Kremlin said, in the latest removal of a high-profile military establishment figure amid the war in Ukraine.

Salyukov, 70, will…

A judge in Russia’s Novgorod region has fined a local man 1,500 rubles (about $20) for posting allegedly extremist symbols on social media. Court records identify the offending materials as two images shared on VKontakte in 2020: a meme…

Last Sunday, Vladimir Putin proposed resuming direct negotiations with Kyiv in Istanbul on Thursday, May 15. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded that he was ready to meet Putin there in person. Then, for several days, Russian…

Meduza has learned that Russia’s state-controlled news media have received instructions from the Kremlin’s domestic policy team to portray this week’s negotiations in Turkey as a distinctly Moscow-driven event. Propagandists are advised to…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the refusal of all ambassadors of the European Union member states to come to a meeting with him and participate in an open discussion on Ukraine is a ‘shameful…