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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the war against Nazi Germany in 1941in Moscow, on June 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia on May 27, 2015.
(Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Putin accuses US of meddling in FIFA affairs
Moscow, AP—Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of meddling in FIFA’s affairs and hinted that it was part of an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country. Putin said in televised comments Thursday that he found it...Caption:
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on February 25, 2015.
(EPA/Mikhail Klimentyev/Ria Novosti/Kremlin Pool)
Opinion: Moscow is seeking a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula
So Russia is concerned about the humanitarian situation in Yemen! Do not ask how and why this has suddenly happened. Russia seems to have a twinge of guilt perhaps and wants to atone for its previous mistakes against the Syrian people, hundreds of thousands of whom it...Caption:
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin looks on as he chairs a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 7, 2014. (AFP Photo/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)
Opinion: Putin’s Inverted Logic
Fate has decreed that Mr. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia—and everybody knows what Russia is— shares the same logic of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah militia. Both these men, who are involved one way or another with the fighting in Syria, the...Caption:
Members of pro-Russian self-defense units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol, on March 16, 2015. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)