After pledging full support for the embattled regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Russia is starting to show signs of doubt about his ability to survive an opposition challenge.
https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2019/02/06/12168697.shtml
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/04Feb2019/wsj/rsmd.html
Russia’s announcement that it would suspend its obligations under a Cold War-era nuclear treaty essentially seals the fate of a pact the U.S. recently said it plans to abandon and heightens the risk of a new arms race.
Nato has said that it fully supports the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
IN THE early 1990s the president of newly independent Estonia gave a speech in Hamburg. In it, he disparaged the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. A little-known Russian official was so outraged that he stormed out. It was Vladimir Putin. This story, recounted in Neil Taylor’s new history of Estonia, is instructive.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/02/02/how-the-baltic-states-resist-russia
https://ru.krymr.com/a/ssora-kotoroy-ne-zametili-eho-konflikta-moskvy-i-minska/29746639.html
https://www.svoboda.org/a/29741301.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/28Jan2019/lefigaro/austria.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3866584