Reuters reports that “Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines, sources say”. Excerpt: MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current...
Reuters reports: KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine, May 16 (Reuters) – Peeking out from under a hat and with his face covered, the Russian fighting for Kyiv described unrelenting battles in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv where Moscow’s forces opened a...
From Andrew C. Kuchins, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Follow him on X: @AndyKuchins, at The National Interest, in...
After the USSR peacefully dissolved and Ukraine regained its independence, Ukraine gave up the former USSR’s nuclear weapons within its territory. Thereafter, The US, the UK, and — wait for it — the Russian Federation signed a memorandum promising to...
Robert F. Worth at The Atlantic, in The Clash of the Patriarchs, reports on how Patriarch Kirill is precipitating a potential schism in the Orthodox Church: In late august of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to...
