Yuri Biryukov, an advisor to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and a loud voice calling on the U.S. to arm Ukraine, condemned the state of the Ukrainian military’s recruitment system in a Facebook rant on Tuesday, saying:
“The current system of mob…

Yuri Biryukov, an advisor to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and a loud voice calling on the U.S. to arm Ukraine, condemned the state of the Ukrainian military’s recruitment system in a Facebook rant on Tuesday, saying:
“The current system of mob…

The rise of dark pools have allowed some of biggest players in the game to make huge moves in secret and in a way that hides the impact of huge trading bloc purchases, with the help of technology.

The rise of dark pools have allowed some of biggest players in the game to make huge moves in secret and in a way that hides the impact of huge trading bloc purchases, with the help of technology.

In the midst of the strident campaign of vilification of Vladimir Putin in Washington—and other Western capitals—a speech by Russian-born thinktanker Dimitri Simes, president of the Center for the National Interest, in the U.S. capital this week is a notable exception.

Simes, a foreign policy analyst whose career has included working for Richard Nixon in his post-presidential years, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Johns Hopkins University, spoke at the National Interest center on the subject of “The Crisis in U.S.-Russian Relations.” The event was chaired by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

Simes has recently visited Russia and held high-level meetings, including with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

According to the write-up on the National Interest website, Simes presented President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov as the “pragmatists,” who are

“relatively moderate on Ukraine and relations with the United States, particularly when contrasted with what Simes called a ‘second school of thought’ in Russia, which believes that the Kremlin should ‘absolutely challenge the existing world order’ and treat the United States as Moscow’s main enemy.”

Simes advocated a pull-back on sanctions, which he said feeds the hardliners’ story, and called for the U.S. to understand that Putin has limited goals. The alternative could lead to an alignment which would “set the stage for a great conflagration.”

In the midst of the strident campaign of vilification of Vladimir Putin in Washington—and other Western capitals—a speech by Russian-born thinktanker Dimitri Simes, president of the Center for the National Interest, in the U.S. capital this week is a notable exception.

Simes, a foreign policy analyst whose career has included working for Richard Nixon in his post-presidential years, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Johns Hopkins University, spoke at the National Interest center on the subject of “The Crisis in U.S.-Russian Relations.” The event was chaired by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

Simes has recently visited Russia and held high-level meetings, including with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

According to the write-up on the National Interest website, Simes presented President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov as the “pragmatists,” who are

“relatively moderate on Ukraine and relations with the United States, particularly when contrasted with what Simes called a ‘second school of thought’ in Russia, which believes that the Kremlin should ‘absolutely challenge the existing world order’ and treat the United States as Moscow’s main enemy.”

Simes advocated a pull-back on sanctions, which he said feeds the hardliners’ story, and called for the U.S. to understand that Putin has limited goals. The alternative could lead to an alignment which would “set the stage for a great conflagration.”