As a week of high-profile talks between Russia and the West ended in failure to resolve soaring tensions over Ukraine and NATO expansion, experts told The Moscow Times that stalemate had always been the probable outcome. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.MFA Russia / flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) “The result was more or less predictable, given … Continue reading A Week of Russia-West Diplomacy Ends in Deadlock