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6 spats between Tusk and Juncker
This week’s virtual fisticuffs between European Council President Donald Tusk and his counterpart from across the road — the European Commission’s Jean-Claude Juncker — over how the EU handles Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest of many fights between Brussels’ most famous high-level sparring partners. Here’s a...
Russian ambassador: UK has a bad record of violating international law
The Russian ambassador to the U.K. said Thursday it is up to British authorities to provide facts about the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter, and criticized Britain’s record on the international stage. Alexander Yakovenko said in a press conference that “the burden of proof lies with the British authorities” and that “no facts...
Are you ready for the World Cup of shame?
NEW YORK — There is a reason why autocrats aggressively seek to host mega sporting events. They offer publicity and a veneer of respectability — two things Russia is desperately in the market for. In less than a hundred days, Russia will host the FIFA World Cup, the most watched sporting event in the world. But as thousands of supporters descend...
Trump congratulates Putin on Russian election win
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election win last weekend and predicted that the two men will meet “in the not-too-distant future.” “We had a very good call and I suspect that we’ll probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future to discuss the arms race, which is...
Kremlin: Trump congratulated Putin on Russian election win
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for winning his recent presidential election, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday. Trump and Putin also discussed limiting the arms race and cooperation on combating terrorism, according to an Associated Press report based on a statement from the Russian...
[Ticker] Merkel: ‘no reason’ to sanction Schroeder for Russia support
German chancellor Angela Merkel sees “no reasons” to punish her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, for holding top posts in Russian companies, her spokesman Steffen Seibert told press in Brussels on Monday, according to Deutsche Welle. “It’s his [Schroeder’s] decision, but politically it’s a disaster,”...
World looks on at Putin’s fourth term as EU ‘shies away’ from blaming Moscow for spy poisoning
Germany Front pages in Germany focused on Russia-German relations. Die Welt covered comments made by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who said he was concerned about the state of relations between Berlin and Moscow. Frankfurter Allgemeine covered the call by Ukraine for sanctions against former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder over his...
Ukraine: Send British diplomats expelled by Russia to Kiev
Ukraine wants to help the U.K. push back against Russia — by bringing British diplomats expelled by the Kremlin to Kiev, where they could work on a more fruitful bilateral relationship. The U.K. last week ejected 23 Russian diplomats as punishment for Moscow’s alleged use of a nerve agent in the attempted assassination of a former spy,...