A stunning proposal from the Federation Council (FC), the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, to President Putin that is circulating in the Kremlin today calls for the present government of the United States, under President Barak Obama, to be labeled as a “criminal regime” due to its failure to adhere to the rule of international law, while at the same time it continues to embark upon... 

Tit-for-tat moves between Russia and the US are plunging the two nations into a new Cold War, says Russia expert Stephen Cohen. Washington’s longtime policy towards Moscow is to blame for the growing tensions. The ‘reset’ in relations between the United States and Russia is dead, as the Obama administration has never truly cooperated with Moscow, instead pushing the same policy Washington has...