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
A US withdrawal from Nato would be disastrous and the biggest gift to President Putin, a former German ambassador to the US and the UK has warned.Several European governments are concerned that President Trump could use the Nato summit in Brussels in July to scale back US commitments or issue
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/leave-nato-and-you-will-boost-putin-trump-warned-fh27mbgdt
http://expert.ru/2018/05/29/gazovaya-vojna/
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643787
http://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2018/05/29/1706732.html
http://expert.ru/2018/05/29/8-trillionov-rublej-na-vsyakij-sluchaj/
http://www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2018/05/29/1706689.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643883