List of Vladimir Putin articles
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GettyImages-455243518 cropped In Democratic Vote, Moscow Looks to Restore Soviet Symbol
Muscovites will debate the restoration of their own contentious symbol -- the statue of a feared Soviet police chief.
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GettyImages-477719244 With an Assist From Putin, Greece — for Now — Wins
The prospect of Russian President Vladimir Putin rescuing Greece might be enough to get Europe to cave to Athen's debt demands.
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MK2 What’s Really Happening With the Yukos Case
European courts are targeting Russian assets in a $50 billion commercial dispute. That has the Kremlin apoplectic and threatening reprisals.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu arrive for the opening of the Army-2015 international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on June 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV (Photo credit should read VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Shows Off Latest, Greatest Military Hardware at Arms Expo
Part arms bazaar, part marketing ploy, the exhibition is meant to show off the fruits of the Kremlin’s decade-long $700 billion military modernization project.
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GettyImages-477254426 Jeb Bush and His Family’s Foreign Policy Officially Enter the 2016 Presidential Race
Jeb Bush insists he's his own man. But as he enters the 2016 presidential race, his family's shadows loom large.
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GettyImages-475949620_6-5 ‘What U.S. Foreign Policy Really Needs Is…’
The 11 worst Washington insider policy clichés.
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458031820 The FBI’s Probe Into the Russian and Qatari World Cups Could Undermine FIFA Reform
A U.S.-led probe into FIFA could cement many of the bad behaviors allowed by Sepp Blatter.
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472747168_960 Dr. Strange-oil
Four slightly insane -- but not entirely unrealistic -- ways that Vladimir Putin could spike the price of oil to save Russia's economy.
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IMG_5734 crop Taking the High Road in the Propaganda War
Only truth — not propaganda — can beat back Russia’s misinformation offensive.
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462914852 Could Potato Diplomacy Warm Ties Between Russia and the United States?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to break the ice with Secretary of State John Kerry with a sack of potatoes.
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A man walks past a poster in Sevastopol on March 13, 2014 reading "On March 16 we will choose either... or...", depicting Crimea in red with a swastika and covered in barbed wire (L) and Crimea with the colors of the Russian flag. Losing Crimea could result in millions in banking losses for the mainland, Ukraine's central bank governor warned on March 13, as the autonomous region looked likely to vote to join Russia in a weekend referendum. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images) Putin’s Great Patriotic Purge
As Russia prepares to commemorate the 70th anniversary of defeating the Nazis, the Kremlin is rewriting history for political convenience.
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FRANCE-RUSSIA-ECONOMY-MEDVEDEV-MEDEF The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia’s Silicon Valley
In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
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470968844 All’s Fair in Bromance and War
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's snub of Vladimir Putin is only the latest in a rich tradition of Pyongyang's prevarications.
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08crop Putin’s Boy Scout Army
Russia's government has revived and revitalized Soviet-era youth clubs to train a new generation of militarized patriots. But they're spending more time learning to throw knives than build campfires.
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