List of Vladimir Putin articles
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GettyImages- crop How Putin’s Ukrainian Dream Turned Into a Nightmare
Kiev and the West are winning. Now is not the time to let Moscow off the hook.
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GettyImages-454199908 crop Ukraine’s Turmoil Is a Gift for the Last Dictator of Europe
The wily president of Belarus is secure at home and newly prominent abroad. Here's how he exploited Ukraine's revolution.
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US President Barack Obama (L) is welcomed by Prince Khaled Bin Bandar Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh (3rdL), upon his arrival at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 28, 2014. Obama arrived in Riyadh for talks with Saudi King Abdullah as mistrust fuelled by differences over Iran and Syria overshadows a decades-long alliance between their countries. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) With Putin in Syria, Allies Question Obama’s Resolve
Washington’s failure to react to the Russian strongman has Mideast powers doubting U.S. relevance like never before.
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GettyImages-170757431 In Syria, Desperate Times Call for Desperate Spin
Obama insists Vladimir Putin's Syria campaign is the act of a desperate man crippled by Western sanctions. A closer look shows the president's mistaken.
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Ukrainian deputy Prime Minister Gennadiy Zubko gives a press conference to present the results of the criminal investigation of the MH17 crash in Kiev on October 13, 2015. The The Dutch-led probe concluded that the Malaysia Airlines flight, headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from war-torn eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities should have closed the air space over the eastern region wracked by fighting with pro-Russian separatists, the official inquiry into the MH17 air disaster found today. AFP PHOTO/GENYA SAVILOV (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images) Russia’s Reality Trolls and the MH17 War of Misinformation
For over a year, the Kremlin has been throwing a smokescreen around the MH17 shootdown. On Tuesday, it reached the height of absurdity.
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GettyImages-490440084_960 How to Negotiate with a Bully
President Obama needs to learn that there's only one language a leader like Putin understands: strength.
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SLIPPER Ankara Shattered by Deadly Terrorist Bombing
Questions abound over who was behind the twin bombings at a peace rally that killed almost 100 Saturday in the Turkish capital, further roiling an already destabilized country.
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US President Barack Obama (R) meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (L) in Los Cabos, Mexico, on June 18, 2012, during the G20 leaders Summit. Obama met today Putin at a G20 summit to discuss differences over what to do about the bloody conflict in Syria. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/GettyImages) Who Is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin?
Pitting a former KGB agent against a former community organizer and seeing what happens in Syria.
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A rebel fighter fires a heavy machine gun during clashes with government forces and pro-regime shabiha militiamen in the outskirts of Syria's northwestern Idlib province on September 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADHOUR (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Acknowledges Reality and Scraps Failed Syria Training Program
The Obama administration set aside $500 million to train rebels to take on the Islamic State. With just five of them still in the fight, the White House is pulling the plug.
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NEW YORK - MAY 05: Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit performs on stage at Gramercy Theatre on May 5, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Russia to Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst: You’ll Always Have a Home in Crimea
The lead singer of Limp Bizkit loves Russia, and officials there think he'd like Crimea too. They're urging him to feel free to move there.
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Putin RS Why Putin Is So Committed to Keeping Assad in Power
Putin's growing military support for the beleaguered Syrian leader is meant to send a clear message to other anxious despots about Russian loyalty to its friends.
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GettyImages-476506935crop Spy Planes, Signal Jammers, and Putin’s High-Tech War in Syria
Russian airplanes are battering rebel targets throughout Syria, but Moscow’s use of next-generation surveillance and communications-blocking equipment is packing a growing punch.
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GettyImages-490440072 CROPPED ‘Putin Is Forever’
Vladimir Putin is celebrating his diplomatic triumph in New York. But not all Russians are thrilled.
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GettyImages-490420416_10-2 Putin Aims at Syria — and Strikes Europe
Take note, Europe: By bombing Syria, Putin has finally put Russia back at the center of the world.
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MOSKVA Putin’s Mediterranean Power Play in Syria
Russia's activities in Syria are less about saving Assad and more about restoring Moscow's place in the key crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean.