Guy Taylor
Guy Taylor is the National Security Team Leader at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence community coverage. He's also a frequent guest on The McLaughlin Group and C-SPAN. His series on political, economic and security developments in Mexico won a 2012 Virginia Press Association award. Prior to rejoining The Times in 2011, his work was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism, and appeared in a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect Magazine of London, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He's also served as an editor at World Politics Review, written for America's Quarterly and produced news videos and feature stories for Agence France-Presse. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Clark University. After a stint at States News Service, he spent five years at The Times from 2001 through 2006, first on the metro desk and later reporting from Iraq, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Guantanamo Bay, in addition to pursuing special assignments throughout the U.S. He was part of a team of Times reporters who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.
Bilateral ties in "deplorably difficult” state — Kislyak
Russia’s top diplomat in the U.S. said in a briefing with reporters Monday that relations between Washington and Moscow are in "a deplorably difficult state” and have fallen in recent years to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
"The dialogue we used to have has slowed down significantly,” Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador in Washington said, during a rare roundtable discussion with reporters on Monday.
"We were able to end the Cold War, but most probably we weren’t able to build post-Cold War peace,” he said. "We’ve failed to create a real tissue of our relations and that makes these relations very, very vulnerable.”
But in wide-ranging comments, the Russian ambassador rejected the idea that a new kind of Cold War is in the offing. "We ought to work together and we are perfectly open to doing so,” he said.
At the same time, he accused the Obama administration and the U.S. military of mischaracterizing Russia as an aggressor and adversary that needs to be isolated on the world stage.
He said relations began breaking down well before Washington andMoscow took opposing sides over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and pointed to NATO’s years-long expansion in Eastern Europe andWashington’s support for it as the top catalyst for friction between the two nations.
"We see the expansion of military infrastructure of NATO moving closer to our borders,” he said.
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