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Though presidential candidate Donald Trump seemed to be praising Russian President Vladimir Putin during America’s 2016 election campaign, everything changed quickly once he was elected. And relations between the two countries have reached an all-time low since the US strike on Syria.
But, as Ivan Kurilla notes, Moscow knows that Washington will need its support if tension continues to rise on the Korean peninsula.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow, April 12 2017.
Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
Ivan Kurilla, European University of St Petersburg
For the past few months, US-Russia relations have been a roller coaster ride.
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Arts + Culture
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Cristina Nualart, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Vietnamese walls were once densely populated by hand-painted signs, a material culture now exceedingly rare.
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Health + Medicine
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Tamara Nair, Nanyang Technological University
The US is the largest donor to the United Nations Population Fund, which mandates access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and voluntary family planning.
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Environment + Energy
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Alan Cooper, University of Adelaide; Matthew Wooller, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Tim Rabanus-Wallace, University of Adelaide
A burst of wet weather could have helped to kill off mammoths and other large herbivores, by transforming much of the world's grasslands into bogs and forests and depriving megafauna of food.
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Politics + Society
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Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London
By calling a national vote now, the prime minister can strengthen her own position at home and at the Brexit negotiating table.
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George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire
African governments have transitioned from outright control of freedom of expression to a subtler manipulation of the press that includes withholding state advertising from commercial media outlets.
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