Archive for 'Russia-US Relations'
A multipolar impasse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.09.2020 At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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The 5G Break Zone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Economy, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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On the lost time and the “sovereign armored train”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Understanding Russia.
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They are preparing Russia for a war
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019 They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, Без рубрики.
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Political Love Story
Grigory Yavlinsky on the results of the investigation of Russia’s interference into the US elections Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.03.2019 The investigation by Robert Muller, Special Counsel [of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections] ended without charge or justification. Robert Muller did not find evidence of Donald Trump’s collusion with Vladimir […]
Posted: March 28th, 2019 under Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the new US sanctions against Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019 The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of […]
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about Russia’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty as the defeat of Putin’s foreign and defence policy
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 3.02.2019 The INF Treaty is no longer valid. Moscow announces the start of creation of new types of missiles. The threat to the security of Russia and Europe surges many-fold. Whether Russia was engaged in the development and testing of the rocket in violation of the INF Treaty, which was the […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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“Shock Therapy” for America: Normalising the Absurd
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.02.2019 For a month now Trump has refused to approve any budget that does not include funds for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. The democrats have rejected his request for the allocation of USD 5.7 billion for these purposes. As a result, the American government has not been […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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A U-Turn: from Сarnival to Сollapse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2018 On what has been happening with liberal capitalism, the “carnival politics”, a change of course in the global economy and the role of Russia in these developments. Smiles and tongue-in-cheek greetings at the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and the adviser to the President of the United States on national security […]
Posted: December 4th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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A Hundred Years After the War: from Nationalism to Nationalism
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.11.2018 IN BETWEEN THE WARS The situation, in which the centenary of the end of the Great (First World) War is celebrated [in Russia], causes as many questions and bewilderment as the anniversary of the revolution in Russia. The unwillingness of the Russian authorities to discuss the crisis of […]
Posted: November 20th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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The Politics of the Emperors With No Clothes
Grigory Yavlinsky about Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump and the difficulties of translation Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.07.2018 The next day, after the meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump arriving in Washington denied what he had said in Helsinki. It turns out that he was “misunderstood”, he simply had a slip of the tongue, “misspoke”, […]
Posted: July 25th, 2018 under Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans
Visas should be cancelled also for tourists from OECD, EU and BRICS countries Press Release, 20.07.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans, but also for residents of countries that give Russia the largest number of tourists. According to Yabloko, visas for tourists from OECD, […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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A Trump-Show
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.07.2018 During his visit to Europe, Donald Trump continues his political trolling of Europeans. These are not just separate episodes. This is not even an individual political style. This is a conscious denial of the content of politics, its replacement with a show. And this is not politics in the style of […]
Posted: July 18th, 2018 under Russia-US Relations.
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Helsinki 2018: The Lost Future
Grigory Yavlinsky on the upcoming meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Yavlinsky.ru, 13.07.2018 The summit in Finland and the way the Moscow establishment and the Russian media are waiting for it is an indication of the position of Russia in the present world. A year ago, a meeting with Donald Trump in Hamburg on […]
Posted: July 17th, 2018 under Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, War in Syria.
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Lev Shlosberg: “The Putin regime represents a symbiosis of a besieged fortress and the Stockholm syndrome”
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 09.04.2018 Lev Shlosberg, leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, was the guest of the programme “2018” at the Ekho Moskvi radio station. One of the topics discussed was the new US sanctions against Russian oligarchs and officials, as well as a number of companies, including those with state participation. Lev […]
Posted: April 9th, 2018 under Economy, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Bad Inheritance of Sanctions
Economist Grigory Yavlinsky talks about the people whose lives will be ruined by the politics of today 12 November 2017, Vedomosti Grigory Yavlinsky for Vedomosti Photo by Andrei Gordeyev/ Vedomosti: Russia’s political ambitions need to be buttressed by an economy that is far larger than the one we have today The topic of sanctions […]
Posted: November 15th, 2017 under Economy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Lukin: “What we are talking about: about offences or interests?”
Former Russia’s Ambassador to the United States and now a Senator of the Federation Council, answers the questions of Novaya Gazeta about the diplomatic duel between the Russian Federation and the United States Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2017 Novaya Gazeta: Has the American side violated the norms of international law with regard to Russian missions in the […]
Posted: September 14th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Nationalism in the USA and Russia
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post on the Ekho Moskvy website, 13.08.2017 The developments in Charlottesville, Virginia, make us put a question – what is the reason for such a surge of national radicalism in the USA? I have no doubt that the main reason is Trump and his nationalist rhetoric before the elections as well as […]
Posted: August 15th, 2017 under Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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