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  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) plays a game of tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) with schoolchildren during a visit to a library in Tyumen on February 26, 2010. Putin made a routine working visit to the city and surrounding region.  AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / POOL / ALEXEY NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) plays a game of tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) with schoolchildren during a visit to a library in Tyumen on February 26, 2010. Putin made a routine working visit to the city and surrounding region. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / POOL / ALEXEY NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

    Playing Tic-Tac-Toe with Putin

    Why the United States has no hope of stopping the war in Syria.

  • attends the "Russian Lessons" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Holiday Village IV on January 26, 2010 in Park City, Utah.
    attends the "Russian Lessons" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Holiday Village IV on January 26, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

    Millionaire Tries to Stop Documentary Claiming to Tell the True Story of Russia’s Missing $230 Million

    A new documentary about Sergei Magnitsky brings the drama of big money versus free speech to Washington.

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    Russian Official Expresses What Putin Won’t In Doping Scheme: Remorse

    A Russian doping official pleads with Twitter to allow athletes to participate in the Summer Olympics.

  • Russia's President Vladimir Putin caresses a Persian leopard cub as he visits the Persian leopard breeding and rehabilitation centre in the National Park in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, on February 4, 2014. A leopard was announced  in 2011 to be one of the official mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Perhaps the most important vote in Russia's public selection of a new Olympic mascot was cast when Vladimir Putin said he wanted a funky leopard to represent the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ POOL / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY        (Photo credit should read ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
    Russia's President Vladimir Putin caresses a Persian leopard cub as he visits the Persian leopard breeding and rehabilitation centre in the National Park in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, on February 4, 2014. A leopard was announced in 2011 to be one of the official mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Perhaps the most important vote in Russia's public selection of a new Olympic mascot was cast when Vladimir Putin said he wanted a funky leopard to represent the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ POOL / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

    Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Actually Care About Saving Leopards

    A high-profile, Putin-backed campaign to protect the habitat of Persian leopards has been quietly abandoned, clearing the way for the country’s richest man to expand his ski resort.

  • LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 13:  Elton John performed songs from his new album Wonderful Crazy Night out February 5, as well as classic hits, on January 13th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.  (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Island Records)
    LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 13: Elton John performed songs from his new album Wonderful Crazy Night out February 5, as well as classic hits, on January 13th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Island Records)

    The Vladimir Putin-Elton John Gay Rights Summit that Wasn’t

    The British pop star and Russian president will no longer meet to discuss gay rights.

  • JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 12: (ISRAEL OUT)  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman waits for the arrival of the Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb outside his office on October 12, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel.  During their meeting to discuss developments in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Lieberman told his Finnish counterpart, who is on a tour of the region, that the refusal by the Palestinian Authority to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is a threat to the talks.  (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
    JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 12: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman waits for the arrival of the Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb outside his office on October 12, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. During their meeting to discuss developments in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Lieberman told his Finnish counterpart, who is on a tour of the region, that the refusal by the Palestinian Authority to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is a threat to the talks. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

    5 Things You Need to Know About Israel’s New Putin-Loving Defense Minister

    Here are five things to know about Avigdor Lieberman, the Moldovan-born former nightclub bouncer now charged with overseeing the Middle East’s most powerful military.

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    Putin Tells Washington ‘Nyet’ On New Doping Probe

    Putin's spokesperson says Russian athletes out of U.S. law enforcement's reach.

  • Seen through the legs of a Russian soldier a RS-24 Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls at a strategic missile forces base near the town of Teykovo, some 200 km northeast of Moscow,  on September 22, 2011, with the boots. Russian strategic missile forces started to replace the mobile version of the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles with an advanced Yars model in 2009, the Russian media reported. AFP PHOTO / ANDREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
    Seen through the legs of a Russian soldier a RS-24 Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls at a strategic missile forces base near the town of Teykovo, some 200 km northeast of Moscow, on September 22, 2011, with the boots. Russian strategic missile forces started to replace the mobile version of the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles with an advanced Yars model in 2009, the Russian media reported. AFP PHOTO / ANDREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

    Size Matters for Putin’s Nuclear Arsenal

    Russia’s whipping out the biggest nuclear missile the world has ever seen and laying it on the table. Should we feel inferior -- or scared?

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    All Aboard London’s Kleptocracy Tour

    A jaunt around the British capital’s dodgiest dealings.

  • U.S. Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, look down range in a M1A2 Sepv2 Abrams Main Battle Tank as AH-64 Apaches hover above during a combined arms live-fire exercise at the Joint Multinational Training Command in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Nov. 19, 2015. The exercise was the culminating event for Combined Resolve V, a U.S. Army Europe-directed multinational exercise with more than 4,600 participants from 13 NATO and European partner nations. Combined Resolve V is designed to exercise the U.S. Army’s regionally aligned force to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility with multinational training at all echelons. This exercise will train participants to function together in a joint, multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. rotational forces to be more flexible, agile and to better operate alongside our NATO allies. 

(U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Markus Rauchenberger/released)
    U.S. Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, look down range in a M1A2 Sepv2 Abrams Main Battle Tank as AH-64 Apaches hover above during a combined arms live-fire exercise at the Joint Multinational Training Command in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Nov. 19, 2015. The exercise was the culminating event for Combined Resolve V, a U.S. Army Europe-directed multinational exercise with more than 4,600 participants from 13 NATO and European partner nations. Combined Resolve V is designed to exercise the U.S. Army’s regionally aligned force to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility with multinational training at all echelons. This exercise will train participants to function together in a joint, multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. rotational forces to be more flexible, agile and to better operate alongside our NATO allies. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Markus Rauchenberger/released)

    Exclusive: U.S. Weighs More Troops, Hi-Tech Weapons in Europe to Counter Russia

    Top U.S. military officer says a buildup launched last year is vital to reassure NATO allies and deter Moscow's 'aggression.’

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    In Russia, the Doors Are Closing

    How — and why — Russians are losing their freedom to travel abroad.

  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin walks near a new Russian fighter jet Sukhoi T-50, after its flight in Zhukovksy, outside Moscow on June 17, 2010. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / POOL / ALEXEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin walks near a new Russian fighter jet Sukhoi T-50, after its flight in Zhukovksy, outside Moscow on June 17, 2010. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / POOL / ALEXEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)

    Avoiding the New Cold War With Russia

    With two risky flyovers of U.S. military assets in a week, tensions with Moscow are high. We need to tone things down, before flyovers become bombing runs.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while answering a question during his annual televised call-in show in central Moscow on April 14, 2016. / AFP / SPUTNIK / MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV        (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images)
    Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while answering a question during his annual televised call-in show in central Moscow on April 14, 2016. / AFP / SPUTNIK / MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

    Most Hated Leaders, Lady Friends, and Assad: Highlights from Putin’s Marathon Q&A

    Russian President Vladimir Putin fielded a wide range of questions in his semiannual news conference Thursday.

  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL,11: (RUSSIA OUT)  Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with German businessmen at the Kremlin April 11, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. Putin has received heads of companies from Germany who invested in Russian economy. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
    MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL,11: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with German businessmen at the Kremlin April 11, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. Putin has received heads of companies from Germany who invested in Russian economy. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

    Obama Poked Putin. And Putin Poked Back.

    Washington’s decision to beef up NATO in Eastern Europe will compel Moscow to reciprocate with an equally aggressive response.

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BALTIC SEA (April 12, 2016) A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a low altitude pass by USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12, 2016. Donald Cook, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)
    160412-N-ZZ999-007 BALTIC SEA (April 12, 2016) A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a low altitude pass by USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12, 2016. Donald Cook, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

    Watch: Russian Fighters Buzz U.S. Warship in Baltic Sea

    The move comes amid continuing tensions with Moscow over Ukraine, Syria, and other issues.

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