Russia’s ruling party signed a “cooperation agreement” with the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Austria, one of the clearest signs that the Kremlin is seeking to deepen ties with nationalist and antiestablishment forces in the West.
The chancellor talks a good game in trying to appeal to German voters wary of left-wing sympathy for Putin, says John Vinocur in The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/merkels-campaign-takes-a-hard-line-on-russia-1482179218
http://inosmi.ru/politic/20161219/238418361.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3169943
http://expert.ru/ural/2017/03/kogda-dva-plyus-dva-menshe-chetyireh/
http://newtimes.ru/stati/xroniki/proforma-mestnogo-samoupravleniya.html
http://www.ng.ru/economics/2016-12-19/1_6888_medicine.html
http://www.ng.ru/economics/2016-12-19/4_6889_pensii.html
Donald Trump is forcing Republicans to take sides on a Russian autocrat who is no friend of the United States.
http://www.r-studies.org/cms/index.php?action=news/view_details&news_id=31876&lang=ukr