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Apr 05 2023
News
How Vladimir Putin Saved NATO
HAMBURG – When Finland cleared the last hurdle for NATO membership last week, major Western newspapers buried the story. Yet Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto justly celebrated “these historic days” – the end of 75 years of neutrality. As of this week, Finland is formally in, and Sweden, another eternal neutral, will soon follow, once Turkey stops blocking its membership. Why would these two
Project Syndicate
Mar 24 2023
News
The Chicago Blackhawks cancel a Pride-themed warm-up citing Vladimir Putin
Brussels, Belgium March 20, 2017. A woman holds a placard with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin during protest against the detention of gay men in concentration camps in Chechnya. Photo: Shutterstock Brussels, Belgium March 20, 2017. A woman holds a placard with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin during protest against the detention of gay men in concentration camps in
LGBTQ Nation
Mar 19 2023
News
Vladimir Putin visits captured Ukrainian city for first time since invading
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a captured Ukrainian city on Sunday for the first time since invading the country last year.
Putin made an unannounced trip to the coastal city of Mariupol, a city Russian forces reduced to near ruins with artillery fire earlier in the invasion. Footage shows Putin driving around the city at night while Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Marat
Fox News (Online News)
Feb 24 2023
News
How Entangled Is Vladimir Putin's Fate With The Outcome Of The Russia-Ukraine War?
As soon as Russia invaded Ukraine, the war became inextricably linked with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As Russia is an authoritarian nation and Putin has been in power since 1999, this makes sense. He has pressed on with the “special military operation” ever since it began on Feb. 24, 2022, despite being warned repeatedly by the West that there would be consequences.
So it
HuffPost
Sep 29 2022
Analysis
Why Vladimir Putin is annexing Ukrainian territory
President Vladimir Putin is set to sign agreements Friday that will absorb into Russia thousands of square miles of Ukrainian territory in what will be the largest forcible annexation of land in Europe since 1945.
The agreements will be signed at a ceremony at the Kremlin, three days after hastily-conducted referendums concluded in the four areas of Ukraine that Moscow will now consider
CNN (Online News)
Sep 13 2013
Opinion
Vladimir Putin Takes Exception
Peggy Noonan on a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an op-ed piece.
Peggy Noonan
Mar 05 2022
Analysis
What’s Going On With Vladimir Putin’s Weird Behavior?
A collection of weird reports are making people question what is actually going on with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio sent a cryptic tweet Feb. 25 in which he wrote, “I wish I could share more, but for now I can say it’s pretty obvious to many that something is off with #Putin.” Given Rubio’s seat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, it’s
The Daily Caller
Sep 26 2022
News
Vladimir Putin grants full Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden
Russian President Vladimir Putin granted full Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday.
Snowden, 39, fled the United States to Russia after revealing information about extensive surveillance operations being conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA). He is now a Russian citizen by presidential decree, Reuters reported Monday.
The announcement comes
Fox News (Online News)
Feb 02 2023
News
Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report
The White House and the CIA have responded to a report that CIA Director, William Burns, offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a fifth of Ukraine's territory to end the ongoing war as part of a peace plan drawn up on behalf of President Joe Biden.
A CIA official told Newsweek that claims in the report from Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that Burns took a secret
Newsweek
Mar 23 2022
Opinion
The Post says: Yes, Vladimir Putin is a war criminal
“What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians, in my view, already fully qualifies as a war crime,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday.
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said he was investigating possible war crimes, examining missile strikes on
New York Post (Opinion)