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Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, left, the Head of the Ukrainian Servant of the People faction Davyd Arakhamia, second left, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak, third left, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian State Duma's International Affairs Committee, fourth right, Russian Presidential Aide and the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky, third right behind Fomin, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin, second right, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, greet each other prior to the Russian-Ukrainian talks in the Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, close to the Polish-Belarusian border, northward from Brest, Belarus, Thursday, March 3, 2022. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Who is Aggravating the War Between the “Two Slavic Sisters”?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned overnight from the subject of “undisclosed” amusement and infatuation to a devil threatening the world’s security, stability, and peace. The accusations…

Dr. Sami Amara – Moscow 04 March 2022

Vladimir Putin: “Czar of Russia” Who is Dreaming of Restoring Soviet Glory

With tensions between Ukraine and Russia at breaking point, all eyes are on the man at the center of the crisis. Russian leader Vladimir Putin shows no sign of pulling Europe back from the brink,…

Majalla 25 February 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden provides an update on Russia and Ukraine during remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

U.S., G7 Allies to Hold Russia Accountable After Attack on Ukraine - Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with his counterparts from the Group of Seven allies early Thursday to map out more severe measures against Russia after President Vladimir Putin launched what…

24 February 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint press conference with French President after their meeting in Moscow, on February 7, 2022. (Photo by Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP)

Ukraine-Russia at a Critical Point

Frantic diplomatic negotiations continue as NATO leaders search for non-military solutions to the continued tensions between Russia and Ukraine. On February 8th the French President Emmanuel Macron…

Maia Otarashvili 12 February 2022

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 30, 2018, China's President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. (Mikhail Metzel/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS)

A Look Into the Authoritarian World Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Hope to Create

I intended this column to focus on Elizabeth Economy’s important new book, "The World According to China," which describes Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s future dominance in the world. This book…

Trudy Rubin 22 January 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin / Reuters

Russia Thinks America Is Bluffing

As talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva over the fate of Ukraine, Europe stands on the brink of war. The US strategy is to negotiate with Russia while threatening “devastating”…

Chris Miller 16 January 2022

Pro-Russian separatists from the Chechen “Death” battalion walk during a training exercise in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

What Putin Really Wants in Ukraine

As 2021 came to a close, Russia presented the United States with a list of demands that it said were necessary to stave off the possibility of a large-scale military conflict in Ukraine. In a draft…

Dmitri Trenin 03 January 2022

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet for talks at the Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (TNS)

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…

Martin Schram 19 June 2021

The Price of Peace in the Donbas

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyhas staked his presidency on ending the war againstMoscow-backed insurgents in the Donbas region of easternUkrainein a manner that will not break his country…

Thomas Graham and Joseph Haberman 06 March 2020

Mikhail Mishustin: From Little-Know Tax Chief to the Second Most Powerful Politician in Russia

When Russians woke up on the morning on January 16, few knew the name Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, the head of the country’s tax service. But by the time they went to bed that night,…

Al Majalla - London 31 January 2020

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