Eastern Europe

Associated Press: Russia-US ties zigzag wildly during Putin’s rule since 2000

MOSCOW — President Donald Trump will become the fourth American leader that Russian President Vladimir Putin has faced since taking the helm in 2000 …
Associated Press

Boston Herald: Donald Trump facing test in meet with Vladimir Putin

WASHINGTON — Tomorrow’s high-stakes face-to-face meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany will test Trump’s …
Boston Herald

Peskov says Moscow doesn’t understand how Washington plans to pursue relations with it

MOSCOW – The Kremlin has no understanding as to how the U.S. administration intends to build relations with Russia, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Ahead of G20 summit, Putin calls sanctions ‘covert form’ of protectionism

Russia is in favor of an open and rules-based trade order to boost global growth, and sanctions imposed against Moscow are a “covert form” of …
Reuters

RFE/RL: Russia, Turkey, Iran fail to agree on details of Syria de-escalation zones

Diplomats from Russia, Iran, and Turkey have failed to reach agreement on final details regarding so-called “de-escalation zones” in parts of war-torn …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Aljazeera: Russia – No deal on de-escalation zones in Syria talks

Russia, Turkey and Iran have failed to hammer out details on an agreement over the war in Syria, including the boundaries and policing of four safe …
Aljazeera

Reuters: Russia hits Islamic State in Syria with advanced cruise missiles

Russian strategic bombers fired advanced cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria on July 5 from a distance of 1,000 kilometers (621.37 …
Reuters

Reuters: Hungary joins Gazprom pipeline, as Trump touts US LNG

Hungary signed a deal with Russia’s Gazprom to link the country with the Turkish Stream pipeline by end-2019 on July 5, a day ahead of President …
Reuters

New York Times: Russia deploys a potent weapon in Syria – the profit motive

MOSCOW — The Kremlin is bringing a new weapon to the fight against the Islamic State militant group in Syria, using market-based incentives tied to …
New York Times

RFE/RL: Despite high tensions, Trump, Putin seek to reestablish a broken dialogue

Syria, Ukraine, North Korea, purported Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, Russian efforts to divide Europe, sanctions and …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Kremlin hopes Putin-Trump meeting to establish working dialogue

MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on July 5 it hoped a planned meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump this …
Reuters

Bloomberg: Russian demand for beach-house return clouds Trump-Putin meeting

Along with big global problems like Syria, North Korea and Ukraine, the Kremlin has one really burning issue to raise when Vladimir Putin meets Donald …
Bloomberg

Bloomberg: Trump-Putin talks raise anxiety ex-spymaster will get upper hand

Donald Trump’s encounter with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is raising concerns among veteran American diplomats and analysts about a mismatch between …
Bloomberg

Washington Post: Months of Russia controversy leaves Trump ‘boxed in’ ahead of Putin meeting

WARSAW – President Trump promised voters that he would strike “a great deal” with Russia and its autocratic president, Vladimir Putin. He has …
Washington Post

Financial Times: China and Russia strike $11 billion funding deal

Beijing is to extend nearly $11bn to two Russian state entities that are under western sanctions. Read more here. 
Financial Times

Russia, China to draft study for Eurasian economic partnership agreement

The Russian Economic Development Ministry and Chinese Ministry of Commerce have signed a statement on a joint feasibility study for an agreement on …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Russia may deploy military in Syrian buffer zones within weeks

Russia may deploy its military to police the borders of planned de-escalation zones in Syria within two to three weeks after finalizing an agreement …
Reuters

The Guardian: China-Russia diplomatic double act exposes Trump’s crudeness

The leaders of China and Russia have vowed to work together to peacefully defuse the deepening crisis over North Korea’s nuclear and missile …
The Guardian
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