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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) receives a gift from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) in Tehran November 23, 2015. REUTERS/leader.ir/Handout via Reuters


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European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir


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Armed pro-Russian separatists stand guard at a checkpoint outside the town of Metalist, north of Luhansk, in Ukraine’s east in 2014. (AFP)


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A unthinkable cost — even decades later. Photographer: Alexey Nikolsky/AFP — Getty Images


A Message to Putin From 42 Million Dead

A Message to Putin From 42 Million Dead

According to official data, more than 800,000 people in Moscow alone, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, took part in Tuesday’s march to commemorate their ancestors’ participation in World War II. This memory is the basis of the Putin school of...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a press conference following their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on May 2, 2017.
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Chances of Rapprochement between Merkel and Putin

Chances of Rapprochement between Merkel and Putin

Sochi (Russia) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is currently on her first visit to Russia in two years. While she has firmly supported European sanctions on Moscow over the Crimea crisis and its role in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, Merkel is seen as a major...