The following is a translation from the Moscow daily paper Moscovsky Komsomolets (Московский комсомолец), a tabloid newspaper with a fairly strong circulation in Moscow and, through its website, all of Russia. Covered here is the requested departure of US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, which was just one small step shy from true expulsion. It should […]
The Ukrainian – Russian incident in the Kerch Strait near Crimea is not affecting plans for a scheduled session between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. This meeting, scheduled to happen at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires running from November 30 to December 1, has not been canceled, according to a report from RT.
US national security adviser John Bolton was in Moscow meeting with Russian officials and President Vladimir Putin, for what was sure to be a very comprehensive and contentious couple of days, but in a sign of a possible thaw, in what has become a second cold war, Putin and Bolton traded some good spirited jokes with one another.
Putin commented to Bolton in a meeting on Tuesday…
“As far as I remember, the US coat of arms features a bald eagle that holds 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch in another, which is a symbol of a peace-loving policy.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are meeting in the Finnish capital of Helsinki for their first bilateral one-on-one meeting.
Trump arrived in the Finland capital a day early, while the jet of Putin, who wrapped up his nation’s hosting of the World Cup Sunday, touched down around 1 p.m. local time and the Russian president’s motorcade whisked him straight to the palace where the two world leaders are meeting.
While answering a question on Russia from Scott Newman during a press briefing on Tuesday, the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer reiterated Trump’s commitment to attempting a deal with Russia.
The following is a transcript of that exchange, available on the White House website.
Contacts between the US Secretary of State and Russia’s Foreign Minister are growing more frequent, which is a positive sign amid the pressure and attempts by the Deep State to derail any sort of US-Russia dialogue.
According to a press statement released on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website, Rex Tillerson spoke with Sergey Lavrov by phone.
President Donald Trump has joined US Permanent Representative to the UN Nicky Haley and the country’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in offering condolences on the death of Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amassador Vitaly Churkin.
A statement released on the White House website reads:
The Russian daily Kommersant has provided more information about the Dunford-Gerasimov meeting held between the two countries’ top military leaders in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday.
Whilst the meeting between the leaders of the US and Russian militaries – Dunford and Gerasimov – took place away from the spotlight in Baku, Azerbaijan, the world media’s attention was focused on the meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Bonn.
A Reuters report has revealed that in his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps US and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States.
The White House declined to comment on the details of the call but spokesman Sean Spicer did confirm that Trump had turned to his aides for an opinion during the call with Putin.
