A Russian warplane “accidentally” hit a building on Thursday in northern Syria with Turkish soldiers inside, killing at least three troops and wounding 11, Turkey’s military said. President Vladimir Putin promptly called his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to express regrets over the friendly fire incident.
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Putin foe Alexei Navalny opens presidential campaign office
In this handout photo provided by Alexei Navalny press service Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, right, his former colleague Pyotr Ofitserov, left, and lawyer Svetlana Davydov, second left, sit in a courtroom in Kirov, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. A retrial of Alexei Navalny for alleged embezzlement continues in the provincial city of Kirov after the original 2013 guilty verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court.
Group calls for cease-fire amid upsurge in Ukraine fighting
Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated … . A Ukrainian soldier inspects a crater left by an explosion in Avdiivka, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.
17:38 7 troops killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine
Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least seven people overnight, injuring many more and briefly trapping more than 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides said, reports the Associated Press . Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk.
Watchdog Cites Global ‘Dual Threat’ From Authoritarian Powers, Populist Movements
A protester holds up a mask of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally against Russian aggression in KyN-v. Freedom House says Moscow further reduced the space for public dissent and political opposition at home in 2016.
Leonid Bershidsky:
Russia, a country not known for strict constitutionalism, has offered Syria’s warring sides a draft constitution that will probably get rejected. But the document sheds light on Russia’s goals in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.
France’s 5 main contenders in the presidential race
Hamon, riding to victory from left-wing obscurity on a radical prop… . Candidate for the French left’s presidential primaries Benoit Hamon greets supporters after winning the socialist party presidential nomination in Paris, France, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.
Trump and Putin Talked About Stabilizing Ties, Kremlin Says
JANUARY 28: President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Also pictured, from left, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German…
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jan. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is spending his Saturday holding a series of phone calls with world leaders, including a much-anticipated phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin .
The Latest: Trump invites Japanese leader to White House
A day ahead of Trump’s weekend call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fight within the Republican Party over the dire… . FILE – In this Jan. 25, 2017 file-pool photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to students at the Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.
Dorn: Like Russia, U.S. has worked its will around globe
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. The U.S. has been big-footing around the globe for more than a century.
Putin and Trump likely to discuss Ukraine sanctions during Saturday phone call: White House aide
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are likely to discuss the sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine when the two leaders speak by telephone on Saturday, a senior White House aide said. Trump has said in the past that, as part of a rapprochement he is seeking with Russia, he is prepared to review sanctions that his predecessor, Barack Obama, imposed on Russia over its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula.
Trump, Putin set for phone call; GOP concerns on sanctions
In this Jan. 25, 2017 file-pool photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to students at the Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. A day ahead of President Donald Trump’s weekend call with Putin, the fight within the Republican Party over the direction of U.S. policy toward Moscow intensified.
President Trump to speak with Vladimir Putin on Saturday
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to speak on the phone Saturday in their first conversation since Trump took office, an administration official told CNN. This month, he suggested he would lift sanctions imposed by the Obama administration if the Kremlin helps the US battle terrorists.
Russia: We want to normalize relations with US, Europe
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for the “re-establishment of normal relations” between Russia and the United States under the Trump administration. His desire for better US-Russian relations on Wednesday echoes previous statements by US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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President Donald Trump bars all refugees from entering the United States for four months _ and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely _ declaring the ban necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from… A federal judge in New York has issued an emergency order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban President Donald Trump’s first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin since taking office is sparking concern among European allies and fellow Republicans about the future of U.S. sanctions on Moscow.
The Latest: Trump says refugee crackdown ‘not a Muslim ban’
President Donald Trump bars all refugees from entering the United States for four months _ and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely _ declaring the ban necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from… Confusion, worry and outrage are growing as President Donald Trump’s crackdown on refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim country takes effect President Donald Trump’s first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin since taking office is sparking concern among European allies and fellow Republicans about the future of U.S. sanctions on Moscow.
The Latest: UN envoy says Syria talks produced ‘commitment’
The face-to-face meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital is the latest in a long … . Delegations of Russia, Iran and Turkey hold talks on Syrian peace at a hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017.
Emerging – Trump Doctrine’ Toward Europe Upends Historic Alliance
For most of the past seven decades, U.S. relations with Europe revolved around a set of shared beliefs: Russia was the common adversary, Germany’s industrial might would be the core of the Continent’s economy and a unified Europe was in everyone’s interests. Donald Trump is having none of it.
With Little Room to Maneuver, Syria’s Rebels Head for Talks
Syrian rebels are sending more than a dozen representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives, the first such negotiations between the two sides in a year. But the loss of Aleppo, the election of Donald Trump and the pivot of Turkey toward Russia has left the opposition with very little room to maneuver.
America’s Russian hypocrisy
Russia was never fully welcome in the Western world order, much less able to participate in it on equal terms. By Nina L. Khrushcheva I hate agreeing with Vladimir Putin, even a little.
Mideast expects big changes under Trump
Donald Trump’s all-but-dismissal of human rights as a foreign policy principle could land like an earthquake across a Middle East landscape beset by warring factions and beleaguered governments, with some players eyeing the prospect of once unimaginable new alliances. Syria is the foremost test of Trump’s promise of a return to a hard-headed realpolitik and could quickly show whether America is truly abandoning promotion of democracy and the rule of law in a way that could reshape much of the region’s post-Cold War, post-9/11 order.
Russian President Putin Defends Trump Against Sex Video Claims
At a news conference in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to unsubstantiated memos prepared by a British intelligence operative that say Russia has compromising information on Trump, including a sex tape of Trump from 2013 involving prostitutes in Moscow. This is Putin.
Presidential Adviser: Poland Should Increase Military Ties with US
Polish Army and U.S. Army soldiers attend the opening ceremony of the Anaconda-16 military exercise, in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2016. Krzysztof Szczerski, President Andrzej Duda’s top foreign policy adviser, was speaking days before the new U.S. administration that has signaled a friendlier approach to Russia takes power in Washington.
Putin: Obama administration trying to undermine Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a joint news conference with Moldovan President Igor Dodon in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations.
Poland wants to increase its military ties with the US
Krzysztof Szczerski, President Andrzej Duda’s top foreign policy adviser, was speaking days before the new U.S. administration that has signaled a friendlier approach to Russia takes power in Washington. Szczerski also suggested that Poland would welcome the re-election of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, Poland’s largest trade partner with whom relations have soured since Polish conservatives came to power a year ago.
Merkel or Putin: Trump won’t be drawn on who he trusts more
Days away from being sworn in as US President, Donald Trump isn’t saying who he trusts more — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a longtime US ally, or Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump called it a draw — at least for now, in a joint interview conducted on Friday by German publication Bild and the Times of London.
Kremlin counts days to Trump’s inauguration, blasts Obama
In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian prosecutors in Moscow, Russia. Careful not to hurt chances for a thaw in U.S.-Russia relations, President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have deferred questions about their plans for future contacts with Trump and any agenda for those talks until he takes office on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.
Kremlin counts days to Trump’s inauguration, blasts Obama
In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian prosecutors in Moscow, Russia. Careful not to hurt chances for a thaw in U.S.-Russia relations, President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have deferred questions about their plans for future contacts with Trump and any agenda for those talks until he takes office on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.
Three big burdens on the Turkish police
I was talking to a ranking official about the escape of Abdulgadir Masharipov, the Tajik-origin Uzbek citizen who is wanted for killing 39 people on Jan. 1 in Istanbul’s Reina nightclub on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant , or DEASH in Arabic. “We have problems,” the official said with obvious embarrassment.
The engineer mindset in politics
Prime Minister Binali YA ldA rA m is an engineer, a ship building engineer from the prestigious Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. He defines himself as a “sailor.”
‘We waited for decades’: Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops
‘We waited for decades’: Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops The deployment is part of a NATO operation that has drawn criticism from Russia. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: http://usat.ly/2iwPm48 Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz speaks during the official welcoming ceremony of the U.S. troops in Zagan, Poland, on Jan. 14, 2017.
More US troops in Europe – a timely move
In 1975, the Cold War was at its peak. I was a new tank lieutenant starting my career with a three-year assignment in US Army Europe.
Decades-long clash of ideals, political theater meet again in Hill’s ‘Pig Painting,’
There was Pussy Riot, the female punk music act jailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and condemned as sacrilegious by the Russian Orthodox Church after an unauthorized performance inside a Moscow cathedral. Pablo Picasso’s massive mural “Guernica” depicts the horrors of the German Luftwaffe bombing a tiny, Basque village at the request of Spanish nationalists.
Nervous about their neighbour, Ukraine and Latvia urge Canada to press Trump on Russia
Soldiers lift their rifles during an honor guard beside the Freedom monument in Riga, Latvia, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 Two of Russia’s nervous neighbours are urging the Trudeau Liberals to use Canada’s close relationship with the U.S. to encourage the incoming Trump administration not to become too cosy with the Kremlin. The ambassadors of Ukraine and Latvia tell The Canadian Press that Canada’s historic friendship and alliance with the world’s only superpower puts it in a strong position to advise president-elect Donald Trump to be wary of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Russia, Tillerson can look to Reagan
Confirmation hearings for former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to become secretary of state began with Sen. Marco Rubio and others questioning Tillerson on the biggest newsmaker of the moment: Russia. Vladimir Putin’s regime not only meddled in the U.S. election; Russia’s alliance with Syria’s Bashar Assad has been responsible for the loss of countless lives and awful regional instability.
Ex-MI6 officer linked to Trump dossier ‘still working for British intelligence’
Russia has claimed the former MI6 officer reportedly responsible for an explosive dossier on Donald Trump may still be working for British intelligence. Christopher Steele has apparently gone into hiding after being identified as the author of the report claiming Moscow held incriminating material on the US president-elect which it could use to blackmail him.
Trump’s choice for top US diplomat talks tough on China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. questions Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson during the committee’s confirmation hearing Tillerson, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washi… WASHINGTON – Pointing toward possible confrontation, Donald Trump’s selection for secretary of state likened Beijing’s island-building in the South China Sea to a takeover of another country’s territory and spoke of forcing Beijing to fully apply sanctions on North Korea.
Trump’s choice for top US diplomat talks tough on China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. questions Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson during the committee’s confirmation hearing Tillerson, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washi… WASHINGTON – Pointing toward possible confrontation, Donald Trump’s selection for secretary of state likened Beijing’s island-building in the South China Sea to a takeover of another country’s territory and spoke of forcing Beijing to fully apply sanctions on North Korea.