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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday “urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine” in a 50-minute call with his Russian cou

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday “urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine” in a 50-minute call with his Russian cou

Shortly after becoming president, Joe Biden promised to lead a course in U.S. foreign policy that "would better reconcile our democratic values ​​with

In 1961, the KGB confiscated the manuscript of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. The novel was, according to Grossman and other Russian commentators, “arrested.” Even in the midst of the political thaw under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, such a portrait of life under totalitarianism wouldn’t be allowed into print, even with Joseph Stalin dead for eight years. In their search for a usable past, something not to be rejected in disgust, not to shudder over, but to cherish and be inspire...

An invasion of Estonia and the other two Baltic States by Vladimir Putin's Russia would fit the pattern of much of his lengthy presidency, a recent opinion piece by US politics portal Politico argues, and if successful would pay dividends in terms of support, just as those into Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014, did.

updated: Feb 03 2021, 09:45 ist The recent discovery of a massive, highly sophisticated hack, almost certainly by Russia, of key U.S. technology companies and government agencies puts the new Biden team in a real quandary: How, when or even whether should they retaliate against Russia’s president? I have a lot of sympathy with that quandary — because Vladimir Putin has become America’s ex-boyfriend from hell. There was a time when Russia — formerly the core of the Soviet Union (a countr...

Boost, because america is the only country that russia cares about. that is the truth. either friend or foe. so win-win. he does not have to make any concessions. he is invited, but he says, no, lets wait. there is nothing unpredictable. i think that he is being rather sit sophisticated, because he is right about not hurting trump. >> dana: if there is one thing that we know about putin it is that he is very patient. leon aron, thank you for joining me. as we await senate testimony from mike pom...

Pursuing different ends.>> november putin is going to get great press coverage because he controls the media in his country. >> he controls the media and he sits down with the american president. that is a big deal. >> leon aron, thank you. >> thank you. >> the gaza strip, a cease-fire being announced after a weekend of deadly strikes between israel and hamas militants. but no surprise, the cease-fire not lasting long. conor powell explains from jerusalem. >> theres a brief few hours of calm thi...