Image by Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_Russia The Founding Fathers set up a system of checks and balances. That’s something we all learned about this in civics class (unless you are a millennial who didn’t take civics). So, it is well within the authority of the legislative branch to attempt to tie the president’s…
Image by NVO In response to the sanctions bill against Russia which is moving through the US Congress, Russia has ordered 755 diplomats to leave, to match the number of Russian diplomats currently allowed in the United States. “The American side has made a move which, it is important to…
Russia retaliated against American diplomatic interests in Russia today after threatening to do so for weeks. The Kremlin ordered a dacha used by U.S. diplomats as a retreat seized as well as a warehouse used by the American embassy in Moscow. In addition, the Kremlin reduced the number of diplomats…
Russia Will Struggle To Turn On Siemens Turbines In Sanctions-Bound Crimea.
Image by AgnosticPreachersKid Russia and the Trump administration traded comments over the ‘dacha’ issue over the last few days in the press. The Obama administration seized the diplomatic compounds as punishment for Russia’s ‘interference’ in the 2016 election. There was no mention by Obama at the time, of Hillary Clinton’s…
Image by kremlin.ru After mass protests from truck drivers and others Russians upset at tax policy, Moscow seems desperate to drive more revenue into the Kremlin’s coffers. Western sanctions and a precipitous drop in the price of crude oil on international markets, in spite of OPEC and Russia’s attempts to…
New Russian Think Tank Report Advises Russia To Move Closer To West.
Poll: More Russians Skeptical About Putin’s Economic Course.
Russia Cancels High Level Meeting Over New Sanctions From Washington.