US media have blasted President Donald Trump for not properly confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit. In an exclusive interview, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace tried to do just that. Wallace’s one-on-one interview with Putin was recorded immediately following the Helsinki summit and aired during the Bret Baier Special Report on Monday […]
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Democrats ‘use Putin as stick to beat Trump,’ hindering US-Russia rapprochement
Despite dashed hopes of a bilateral meeting between the Russian and US presidents on the sidelines of Vietnam’s APEC summit, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump managed some rapprochement, political analysts have told RT. They explained that this fact has angered some in the US establishment, and that it’s the camp that lost the 2016 US […]
Shattered US-Russia ties ‘greatest threat’ to world peace – German FM
Published time: 5 Nov, 2017 12:56 The “completely shattered” US-Russia relationship is the greatest threat to peace across the globe, the German foreign minister warned. The world will see more uncertainty should Moscow and Washington fail to find common ground. Read more Should Moscow and Washington fail to mend ties, “our children will be growing […]
Time to fix US-Russia relations, Trump’s speech ‘remarkable’ – Lavrov after talks with Tillerson
Moscow wants to put an end to mutual hostility with Washington, although it was not the one to start the confrontation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, expressing hope that Trump’s “remarkable” speech at the UN is not just talk. READ MORE: Lavrov and Tillerson meet to talk Syria & Ukraine on UN General […]
The US-Russia standoff may be a ‘convenient’ moment for Trump and Putin
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Moscow retaliated against new US sanctions over the weekend by announcing that 755 US diplomatic staff, many of them American, would be barred from working in Russia indefinitely. The reprisal was far from surprising. President Barack Obama issued new sanctions in December and Congress had been debating the recently passed legislation for months, leaving […]
‘He has best CIA stuff’: WikiLeaks nominates Assange to run Trump’s ‘US-Russia cyber security unit’
Published time: 10 Jul, 2017 03:20 The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has suggested that Donald Trump appoint Julian Assange as the chief of the joint cyber security unit as discussed with President Vladimir Putin. Trump, however, clarified that discussions do not mean any plans for such unit are in the works. On Sunday, Trump announced on […]
KREMLIN: Putin explained to Rex Tillerson why US-Russia relations are currently in a ‘deadlock’
Reuters/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hasn’t produced any positive shift yet in Russia-U.S. relations. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday the Russian leader gave Tillerson his view of the causes of the current “deadlock” in bilateral ties. President Donald Trump declared […]
Russia is getting impatient about resetting US-Russia relations
© AFP/File Savo PRELEVIC Washington (AFP) – A Russian government spokesman expressed impatience Sunday that bilateral relations with the United States have not improved more quickly since US President Donald Trump took office. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said his country’s government is eager for improved US-Russian relations, calling it “unpardonable not to be in dialogue,” as […]
