blessings and curses from constantinople

the decision is expected to come into effect November, its promise prompted stinging rebuke from Moscow Patriarchate. ... By contrast, Constantinople's decision deals black eye to Poroshenko's Russian, Vladimir Putin, as it threatens to push Ukrainian society further outside Moscow. ..

the crumbling architecture of arms control

With US National Security Advisor John Bolton in Moscow as I write, and more importantly with the reputation for springing surprises that the US and Russian Presidents both have, there may be more developments in one direction or another in the coming days or weeks.. ..

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