New
Détente for the New Cold War: Trump and Putin Speak.
Stephen
F. Cohen, @nyu, @princeton University. EastWestAccord.com.
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New
Détente for the New Cold War: Trump and Putin Speak. Stephen F.
Cohen,
“…MOSCOW
— President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President-elect Donald
J. Trump spoke by telephone for the first time on Monday, agreeing to
review what both consider the poor state of relations between the two
countries, according to a statement from the Kremlin.
The
two agreed “on the absolutely unsatisfactory state of bilateral
relations,” said the statement, and they both endorsed the idea of
undertaking joint efforts “to normalize relations and pursue
constructive cooperation on the broadest possible range of issues.”
The
issues discussed included trade and economic ties as well as
combating terrorism. Mr. Putin was one of the first world leaders to
congratulate Mr. Trump last Wednesday, sending him a telegram about
an hour after he had emerged the victor, but the two men have not met
nor had they spoken previously. Mr. Putin repeated the
congratulations over the phone.
The
Russian president said he hoped that Moscow could build a
“collaborative dialogue” with Washington on the bases of
“equality, mutual respect and noninterference in the other’s
internal affairs,” the release said.
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“YESTERDAY
by: Gideon Rachman What is going on between Vladimir Putin and Donald
Trump? That question hung over the US election. Now that Mr Trump has
won the presidency, the question of his relationship with the Russian
leader assumes global significance….”
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“…The
House bill would authorize the State Department to assist in the
collection and preservation of evidence for war crimes trials.
Secretary of State John Kerry last month called for a war crimes
investigation of Russia and Syria, a move that escalated already
heated rhetoric against Moscow for its part in a deadly military
offensive in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and its longstanding
support of Assad.
The
Syria legislation, formally titled the Caesar Syria Civilian
Protection Act, is named after a crime scene photographer for the
Syrian military who was reassigned to photograph the bodies of
imprisoned Syrian rebels and dissidents after the conflict began. He
later defected, and his archive of images of more than 10,000 bodies
was smuggled out of the country. He went by the pseudonym Caesar, and
he testified in disguise in July 2014 year before Foreign Affairs
Committee, saying he had witnessed a "genocidal massacre."…”
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