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.
The front line with Russia has moved east. It makes sense for American forces to follow.
https://ru.krymr.com/a/29258949.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/30May2018/letemps/bulgarie.html
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/05/30/5b0d288a9a79472b0a2f219d
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3643516
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/30May2018/faz/oel.html
https://www.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2018/05/30/771312-rossii-opek-treschini
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