List of Vladimir Putin articles
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The "For Life" anti-abortion demonstration in Moscow's Sokolniki park on Sept. 14. (Joel van Houdt for Foreign Policy) Putin’s Next Target Is Russia’s Abortion Culture
The Russian president is worried about his country’s shrinking population. His social-conservative allies say they have the solution.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province on September 5, 2017. Xi opened the annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea's latest nuclear weapons provocation. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / WU HONG (Photo credit should read WU HONG/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Isn’t the Answer to America’s Problems With North Korea
Moscow is not the place to look for solutions.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets US President Donald Trump prior to the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / IAN LANGSDON (Photo credit should read IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images) Staring Down the Barrel of Russia’s Big Guns
The massive Zapad 2017 military exercise proves once again that Putin never does anything small. But what’s he really after here?
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 2: A stack of scrapped missiles, the South Korean Nike (L, back), the US Hawk (front) and the North Korean Scud (C, back) displayed at a war museum on May 2, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea apparently test fired a missile into the Sea of Japan raising new fears about Pyongyang's nuclear intentions just days after a U.S. intelligence official said the secretive Stalinist state had the ability in theory to arm a missile with a nuclear warhead. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) Why Donald Trump Wants His Nukes to Be Smaller
Be wary of tiny nukes in tiny hands.
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Russian T-90 tanks take position before firing in Kubinka Patriot Park outside Moscow on August 22, 2017 during the first day of the "Army 2017" International Military-Technical Forum. / AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) Is Russia Practicing a Dry Run for an Invasion of Belarus?
With tensions worsening between the two countries, Russia’s massive military exercise is firing a couple thousand warning shots at a reluctant ally.
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US President Donald Trump speaks before a meeting with lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House on September 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) The Four Seasons of Kremlingate
The summer of scandal is over, but the autumn is just getting started.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looks through a microscope during a visit to the Kurchatov scientific research institute in Moscow on September 30, 2009. Medvedev made a working visit to the research center. AFP PHOTO / POOL / MAXIM SHIPENKOV (Photo credit should read MAXIM SHIPENKOV/AFP/Getty Images) The World’s Largest Free Scientific Resource Is Now Blocked in Russia
A feud within Russia's scientific community could have major repercussions.
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GettyImages-484932085crop Washington Just Punished Russia — and Helped Putin
The Trump administration just made it harder for Russians to enter the United States ... and gave the Kremlin an easy win.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - JULY 08: The Ku Klux Klan protests on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The KKK is protesting the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments. (Photo by Chet Strange/Getty Images) Donald Trump Can Make Friends With Russians or Nazis but Not Both
Russia has piled onto the latest Trump-bashing bandwagon — but there's more to it this time than sheer cynicism.
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US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Syria Strategy Hinges on Russia
But does the president have enough leverage to make Moscow do what’s necessary?
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putin khadjima Putin Heads to Occupied Georgia Territory on War Anniversary
It's a slap at Mike Pence and Georgia itself nine years after the Russian invasion.
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till-crop3 While Moscow Mocks Trump, Tillerson Tries to Repair U.S.-Russia Ties
Vladimir Putin seems to have run out of patience with the administration.
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GettyImages-166033416cop Russian Hackers Can’t Beat German Democracy
Of course the Kremlin is going to try to hack Germany’s upcoming election. But it’s not going to succeed.
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GettyImages-630073928crop If Putin Wanted to Step Up His Fight With America, You’d Know It
The Russian president’s decision to cull 755 U.S. Embassy employees was not the act of a man ready to give up on relations with the United States.
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Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management Bill Browder attends the "Prospects for Russia after Putin" debate in the Houses of Parliament, central London on November 18, 2014. The event saw political activists, journalists and politicians discussing the state of Russia under Putin's control and the effects that his policies are having on the world. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) Browder Says “No Doubt” Lawyer Who Met With Trump Jr. a Russian Agent
Senate weighs closing loopholes in the Foreign Agent Registration Act
