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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)


Opinion: Russia and the danger of conspiracy theories

Opinion: Russia and the danger of conspiracy theories

The way President Vladimir Putin tells it, Russia is the victim of a great conspiracy designed to prevent it from claiming a position within the global networks of leadership. The Europeans are plotting to deny Russia the right to host the 2018 football World Cup. The...
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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

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...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on February 25, 2015.
(EPA/Mikhail Klimentyev/Ria Novosti/Kremlin Pool)


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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

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...
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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)


Russia starts nationwide show of force

Russia starts nationwide show of force

Moscow, Reuters—More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin’s biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows. President...