Is Putin really a “pariah” and Russia “isolated from the international community”?
https://www.thenation.com/article/debasing-us-policy-discourse-about-russia/
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.
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/05/30/5b0d2e379a79472cc4267d51
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643963
https://inosmi.ru/politic/20180530/242351461.html
Москва расширяет свое влияние в Африке. Все начинается с поставок оружия, затем появляются инструкторы, наемники и бизнесмены. Самый последний пример — Центральноафриканская Республика.
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
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643287
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/29May2018/lesechos/france_rus1.html