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Top Dutch diplomat Stef Blok said there is no new Cold War after meeting his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. The two also touched upon Syria, the downing of the MH-17, and the Skripal case. “It’s Friday 13th today and it seemed a good time to visit Moscow,” Blok joked, addressing reporters after Lavrov finished his […]
Incoming students at John Hopkins University in Baltimore will no longer be able to major or minor in Russian. The decision has perplexed faculty and students in the Russian language and literature program. The director of the Russian program at John Hopkins University said she was “blindsided” by the cancellations. “This is a crazy decision […]
I lived in Moscow for seven years, from 2006 to 2013, and the current obsession with cataloguing meetings with Russians reminds me of one of the darkest features of Russian politics. And indeed, this focus threatens to turn the biggest story of 2016 — the aggressive and partly open Russian intervention in the US election […]
