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| | | | | Joshua Yaffa on how Vladimir Putin outsourced his military ambitions to the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin; and their recent coup against him. | |
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| | | | | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged to visit a chain of islands in its Far East, including those disputed with Japan, further complicating their strained ties amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. | |
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| | | | | President Vladimir Putin is working to silence his most vocal pro-war nationalist critics on the eve of this fall's regional elections and the 2024 presidential election in which he is expected to seek six more years in power. Following the Wagner mutiny, which posed the biggest threat yet to Putin's 23-year rule, the Kremlin now seeks to deploy the same tactics it used to crush Russia's liberal opposition against prominent far-right "patriots" to mitigate its political risks, three Russian officials tol... | |
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| | | Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. has led an international campaign to shun and isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former U.S. president Joe Biden did not talk to Putin once after the war began. That policy of isolation is now over. On February 12, U.S. President Donald... | ||