The Kremlin increased military spending in 2016 to become the 3rd largest spender, despite a lagging economy due to Western sanctions and the collapse of the price of crude oil on global markets. Military expeditures rose for the second consecutive year to over $69 billion. The Stockholm International Peace Research…
Russia’s FM Lavrov Will Visit Georgia’s Occupied Abkhazia.
Early expectations of an easy rapport between the Trump administration and Russia are crashing into reality as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has a fraught meeting in Moscow beset by escalating allegations over Syria. The first Trump Cabinet official to visit Russia, Tillerson is on a thus-far-futile mission to…
Tillerson Visiting Moscow Amid Fresh Tensions.
Kremlin Says Convinced Of US Attempts To Wiretap Putin.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a colleague of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was shot to death 2 years ago outside the walls of the Kremlin, has left Russia after a second ‘poisoning.’ Kara-Murza laps into a coma a month ago and recently recovered enough to travel. The attack two years ago nearly…
Russia May Send Snowden To US As A Gift To Trump…developing U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a “gift” to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a “spy” and a “traitor” who deserves to be executed. That’s according…
Alexey Kudrin, former Russian finance minister and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the arrest of a high level economic minister is a sea change in Russian politics. “Bringing on charges with bribery against a person in the rank of a minister is a dramatic event for Russia that…