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How Putin Is Pushing Back Against the West
The various crises now springing up in Eastern Europe are meant as warnings against assumptions that Russia will simply accept whatever state of affairs the Western alliance decrees.
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Rivals on World Stage, Russia and U.S. Quietly Seek Areas of Accord
There have been a series of beneath-the-surface meetings between the two countries as the Biden administration applies a more sober approach to relations with the Kremlin.
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Russian Federation SITREP 28 October 2021
Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary session of the 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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Divining Putin: What Russia is willing to do (or not) for its own interests
The further the Biden administration kicks the Ukraine issue down the road, the greater the chance for something to set it off.
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Putin the Poisoner? More Doubts Over Attempts to Delegitimize Russia’s Leader
Attempts to delegitimize President Putin by making him an international poisoner is a tragedy elevated by its absurdity to the level of farce.
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Melting ice fuels Vladimir Putin’s dream of Arctic trade route
By Marc Bennetts via The giant icebreaker Lenin now sits in a corner of the port of Murmansk, the world’s largest city within the Arctic Circle. From 1959 to 1989 this colossal vessel accompanied thousands of ships through over half […]
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Putin OKs revised Russian national security strategy
viaMOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a revised version of Russia’s national security strategy that envisages “symmetrical and asymmetrical measures” in response to foreign states’ “unfriendly actions that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Russia.Putin signed a […]
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Russia’s Putin Challenges U.S. Leadership, Asserts Military MightRussian president seeks to portray the U.S. as a waning power during an annual event at which he answers questions from ordinary citizens
By Georgi Kantchev and Thomas Grove viaMOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged U.S. leadership in world affairs on Wednesday, arguing that an era of U.S. hegemony has come to an end as he touted Moscow’s growing military strength and increasingly assertive […]
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ACURA Viewpoint: Parsing Putin’s Red Lines
by Lyle J. Goldstein of the Naval War College via Many observers of President Vladimir Putin’s 2021 “State of the Nation” speech have focused on his statements with regards to “red lines,” since he let it be known that Russia’s […]
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Putin Isn’t Bluffing on Ukraine
by Ray McGovern viaRussian President Vladimir Putin’s stern warning earlier today not to cross what he called Russia’s “red line” needs to be taken seriously. The more so, as Russia builds up its military capability to respond to any provocations […]