https://t.me/nopaywall 12 ноября 2017 г.  Michael C. Bender. But the president wouldn’t say definitively whether he believes the report that Russia interfered in 2016 election. HANOI, Vietnam—President Donald Trump said he had full confidence in U.S. intelligence agencies, indicating that he believed a report earlier this year that concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Still, asked to answer with an affirmative yes or no about whether he believed that report was true, Mr. Trump declined.…

https://t.me/nopaywall 13 ноября 2017 г. Trump and Tillerson are ceding the advantage to Russia and Iran. The press corps spent the weekend obsessing about what Donald Trump thinks about what Vladimir Putin believes about Russian meddling in the U.S. election. #evergreentweets. The real news is Mr. Trump’s deal announced in Vietnam with the Russian strongman for the “deconfliction” of Syria. This is ceding the regional advantage to Russia and Iran. That’s the take-away of the joint statement issued Saturday…

https://t.me/nopaywall 15 ноября 2017 г. James Marson, Kejal Vyas. Moscow agrees to restructure $3 billion in debt it is owed by its South American ally. MOSCOW—Russia threw a lifeline to Venezuela on Wednesday, restructuring the more than $3 billion it is owed by its economically and politically troubled South American ally. The Russian Finance Ministry said the debt of $3.15 billion would now be repaid over 10 years, with minimal repayments during the first six years. “Reducing the debt burden to the republic…

https://t.me/nopaywall 16 ноября 2017 г. Nathan Hodge. Retaliatory move comes after network RT was required to register as foreign agent in U.S. MOSCOW—Russian lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the government to designate international media outlets as “foreign agents,” a retaliatory move after Kremlin-backed network RT was required to register as a foreign agent in the U.S. this week. Legislators in the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, voted unanimously to amend existing law to…

https://t.me/nopaywall 17 ноября 2017 г. Sadanand Dhume. The Bolshevik revolution helped disfigure the country’s economic imagination. As the world marks the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, our attention has naturally turned to how communism ravaged the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European vassals. But the ideology also cast a shadow outside the communist world. In terms of the sheer number of people affected, India suffered more than any noncommunist country. Overcoming this poisonous…