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Russia’s 20th-century history can effectively be summarised as a list of individuals: Nicholas II, Lenin ... Vladimir Putin. So it is not surprising that journalists and biographers queue up to write ...
The flawed argument about NATO expansion flows from two false premises. One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S.
Into this chaotic scene came Putin, a former KGB officer who joined the Yeltsin administration that year and became its security chief in 1998. In 1999, Putin was appointed prime minister ...
Four months later, Yeltsin named this FSS chief the prime minister of Russia. And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and collected, I was wary of him at ...
President Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin. In January 1943, Roosevelt had an opportunity to save the nations of ...
staged a comeback that saw its candidate compete in a runoff with Yeltsin. Into this chaotic scene came Putin, a former KGB officer who joined the Yeltsin administration that year and became its ...
His arrest is significant, partly because it could set a precedent for future trials of other leaders wanted by the court, however unlikely, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli ...
Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin’s new chief negotiator with the US, Kirill Dmitriev, met in the White House on Thursday with special envoy Steve Witkoff and said that while “disagreements remain” with ...