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Jan 26 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
🔥⚡️Deputy Chairman of Foreign Affairs Commiitee of the #Russia/n Council of Federation (Senate): #US response to Russian security proposals does not satisfy #Moscow. RUS will prepare its own response within days & it will be prepared in consulations w/ partners including #China
Meanwhile,27 #Russia/n diplomats @RusEmbUSA are leaving #US today (28 more expected to leave during summer) upon #US decision
Amb.Antonov said @StateDept "made it clear that he himself would also have to leave by April if RUS fails to give visas to guards of US embassy in Moscow"
Top it off with the latest news that the investigation into the terrorist attack on board of a city bus in Voronezh in August 2021 (that killed 2 and left many wounded) discovered it might have been perpetrated by #Ukrainian special ops unit..
vesti.ru/article/2668791
It can't get any more surreal (well, it sure can):
President @RTErdogan says he invited #Putin to #Turkey for talks....
NOTE: So far,this is a reaction from lawmakers, not an official reaction from the Kremlin or MFA. Yet the #China component here shouldn't come as a surprise - I spoke about it back when I gave a shot at explaining #Russia/n logic for the crisis warontherocks.com/2022/01/what-i…
First reaction from #Kremlin to #US proposals (per Peskov): There're prospects for dialogue. It's in the interests of both #Russia & US. But as far as concrete dialogue over the US-presented papers is concerned I'd not jump to conclusions. President needs time to study them"

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Jan 21
#Lavrov on talks with @ABlinken: #US sought to put #Ukraine at the top of the negotiations agenda, but it seemed to me that at the end of th meeting they realized we'd eventually have to focus on the substance of [#Russia's] security proposals
#Lavrov on the meeting with @ABlinken: We believe that publicizing #US response to #Russia's security proposals would be a right thing to do, I'd ask Secretary #Blinken that we should do it
This is the key point that pundits,media,politicians in #US/#EU are missing about the situation w/ #Russia. It is not about #Ukraine or European security order/architecture. It's about #Russia's own security guarantees which #Moscow intends to ensure for itself with or w/out US
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Jan 10
My summary of #US - #Russia talks in #Geneva / THREAD
1. The talks went, by and large, as #Russia/n party expected it to go:
a) #US took most RUS proposals seriously, elaborated thru them;
b) US sought to tie RUS proposals to issues of strategic stability & missile deployments
c) US sought to make it “protracted negotiation process”
2.#Russia made clear it wasn’t interested in linking strat stability conversation to security guarantees conversation – at least in the way the #US wants it.
Ryabkov: “Legal guarantees on the issue of @NATO non-(further)expansion are of the prime significance for Russia”
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Jan 6
#Russia/n deployment to #Kazakhstan within CSTO mandate - THREAD
1/ Eurasian politics can be interesting:
Over the past 3 days the country that seemed the strongest in #CentralAsia almost turned into a failed state. #Putin sent troops to prop up the ruler who endorsed "multi-vector" foreign policy...
2/ ..and the decision had to be pronounced by #Armenia/n PM who himself came to power thru protests and who refused to turn to CSTO at the time his army was losing to #Azerbaijan
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Jan 5
Serious clashes between protestors and law enforcement on the streets of Almaty, unconfirmed reports suggest 8 law enforcement killed, many wounded
#KazakhstanProtests
#Kazakhstan
Mob captures and beats up a law enforcement officer
In another episode, a policeman was surrounded and the mob took away his gun. For some reason other policemen did nothing
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Nov 20, 2021
I read the title & thought #US was just playing fool.Then I watched @CNN asking abt "#Putin's motives for invading #Ukraine" & heard the answers such as "further dispution of #NATO" & "..constantly testing the West".
I know see why the "blind spot"
edition.cnn.com/2021/11/15/pol…
Seriously thou, there're some Russia experts in #Washington who read #Russia well. There're not many but enought to draw on their expetise to make accurate policies. The intel "blind spot" isn't cuz of lack of info or access to #Putin's closed circle...
..It's abt political will to correct the course of action,resists lobbysts & political inertia.
There was no lack of intel on #Afghanistan - thou assessments divereged.There's no lack of intel on RUS,either understanding of why Putin may be inclined to use force...
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Nov 20, 2021
Good piece by @scharap on #US - #Russia -#Ukraine puzzle. Short THREAD with my own reflections on Sam's thoughts.
1/ Charap's reasoning is most realist & reasonable of other proposals coming from Washington these days on how to contain & deter #Russia over #Ukraine. Perhaps,RU does seek to change status-quo but this,as many in #Moscow see it,exactly what #US has sought to do in last 6+ years
2/ In any case, what @scharap proposes seems to be the best option in the given situation - avoiding a major war should be the focus. Containing RUS is much needed from #US standpoint, but this policy too has its own limits & #Putin made it clear the limit been reached.
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