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A Russian S-400 missile blasts off at the shooting range of Kapustin Yar near Astrakhan, 1150 km (720 miles) south of Moscow.

Kremlin Says Implementation Talks of S400 Missile Deal with Saudi Arabia ‘Positive’

by Taha Abed alWahed | Oct 10, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Moscow- Russia’s Kremlin stressed the positive nature of cooperation between Moscow and Riyadh concerning the implementation of military-technical agreements announced by the two sides at a press conference following talks between King Salman bin Abdulaziz during his...

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman walks past Russian honour guards during a welcoming ceremony upon his arrival at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow, Russia October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

After the Saudi-Russian Summit

by Ghassan Charbel | Oct 6, 2017 | Opinion

Several factors push the journalist who headed to Moscow to cover the Saudi-Russian Summit to describe it as an exceptional event. It is the first time a Saudi monarch walks into the Kremlin Palace. The keenness of Russian President Vladimir Putin to receive the king...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Reuters

Netanyahu Heads to Moscow to ‘Free Syria from Iranians’

by Nazir Majli | Aug 21, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- Following the failure of talks held by an Israeli delegation in Washington last week, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced Sunday that Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Sochi on Wednesday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin answers questions during the annual call-in session broadcast live by Russian TV channels and radio stations on June 15, 2017. (AFP)

The View From the Kremlin: Survival Is Darwinian

by MAXIM TRUDOLYUBOV | Aug 15, 2017 | Opinion

MOSCOW — In a rare move, the United States Congress has voted to intensify sanctions against Russia, and President Trump has signed them into law. Even before the American leader put pen to paper last week, President Vladimir Putin of Russia fired back by demanding...

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Russians miss out on these delights. Photographer: Jean Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images

US Sanctions Are Another Gift to Putin

by Leonid Bershidsky | Aug 7, 2017 | Opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin tends to respond to Western sanctions in ways its authors probably didn’t anticipate: by going after those Russians who could most help their own country and who want to build ties with the West. His order last week to US...