Vladimir Putin will have paid very close attention to the location of the Syrian artillery battery where four Russian soldiers lost their lives at the weekend. The desert around Deir ez-Zour remains a dangerous place – politically as well as physically – in which the Americans and Russians play an extremely risky game of war.
The front line with Russia has moved east. It makes sense for American forces to follow.
https://www.gazeta.ru/auto/2018/05/30_a_11776219.shtml?updated
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/30May2018/faz/oel.html
https://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/cb-iz-rossii-v-ofshory-vyveli-$42-mlrd-za-god-1025855305
http://expert.ru/2018/05/30/manipulyatsii/
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643215
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643905
When the United States escalated sanctions against Russia last month in retaliation to Moscow’s “malign activities” overseas, the impact was immediate. Shares in companies controlled by Kremlin-friendly oligarchs fell and the rouble suffered. Yet already critics are asking: are the sanctions working
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-s-show-goes-on-as-russia-rides-out-sanctions-r9cs2qvqv
NATO isn’t providing the security the Polish government has long wanted. Warsaw is not sure the Trump administration will either.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/76462