List of Vladimir Putin articles
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A poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin is used as target practice near Zolote, Ukraine, on Jan. 21, 2022. Can Russia Ever Become a ‘Normal’ European Nation?
Ironically, a defeat by Ukraine could trigger Russians to reexamine their national identity.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is interviewed by French television host Caroline Roux in Paris on Oct. 12, 2022. Europe Needs a Strategy for Russia After Putin
Competing ideas about the end state of the war are striving for dominance.
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An illustration showing a torn Russian flag and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s High Time to Prepare for Russia’s Collapse
Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.
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A billboard with a member of the military is shown before an old tall building. Russia May Be Getting Ready to Mobilize in Ukraine (Again)
Has the Kremlin learned from the mistakes of its first mobilization?
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Anti-war protesters gather in front of the White House in Washington to demonstrate against escalating tensions between the United States and Russia. For ‘Peace Activists,’ War Is About America, Never Russia
Their own hard-left worldview is so absorbing that they will take the side of any aggressor in the anti-Western camp.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with foreign investors in Russia. Putin’s Pit Bull Is Making a Power Play
As hard-liners shuffle for power amid a failing war, Russia’s military could turn even more aggressive.
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A Ukrainian national flag waves while smoke rises after Russian attacks hit a fuel storage facility in the city of Kalynivka, Ukraine, on March 25. The Invasion That Changed Everything
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 stunned the world and upended global politics.
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Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin, charged with "discrediting" the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, flashes a victory sign inside a defendant's box at the Meshansky district court in Moscow on Dec. 9. A Russian Dissident Is Sentenced in Moscow
Ilya Yashin’s is the most significant political trial in Russia since Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment in 2021.
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A pedestrian walks past a vandalized mural depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Belgrade on June 2. Sanctions on Russia Are Working. Here’s Why.
The Kremlin’s ability to wage war is already constrained, but the worst is yet to come.
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A police officer is reflected in the logo of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) at the OSCE headquarters in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on Feb. 21. Will Russia Kill the OSCE?
Moscow is derailing peacekeeping missions and disrupting the budget process, threatening an organization that is vital to European security.
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Vladimir Putin addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 28, 2015 in New York City. The U.N. (as We Know It) Won’t Survive Russia’s War in Ukraine
The institutions designed to secure global order clearly aren't up to the task. What will take their place?
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Police detain protesters in Moscow. Why Isn’t Russia a Democracy?
The country wasn’t preordained to despotism or a clash with the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the start of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, on May 15, 2017. How Putin and Xi Are Trying to Break Global Human Rights
In their own way, Russia and China are threatening the world’s system for defending human rights.
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Students at a Brooklyn, New York, school take part in a duck and cover drill in preparation for a nuclear attack in 1962. The Dangers of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’
Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Biden is re-creating nuclear deterrence on the fly.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow Why Putin’s Nuclear Gambit Is a Huge Mistake
The only thing more terrifying than Russian nuclear use is letting fear drive Western strategy.
