As Russia ups its game in Syria — apparently supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with tanks, naval infantry and air defense systems — Vladimir Putin is deliberately putting the West in a very difficult position. Moscow and Washington have been at loggerheads over the conflict since its beginning. At its heart is not just spiraling geopolitical rivalry, but… [Read More]
Syria is the next arena on Vladimir Putin’s comeback tour
Vladimir Putin is back. After spending more than a year in the doghouse for slicing off pieces of Ukraine, the Russian president has stepped back on center stage by appointing himself the indispensable arbiter in Syria’s civil war. For Putin, the first quarter of 2014 began with the euphoria of hosting the world’s most expensive… [Read More]
Vladimir Putin wants his seat back at the world’s table. How far will he go to get it?
Vladimir Putin did not call Elton John and suggested they meet to discuss LGBT rights in Russia, but a lot of people believed that he did. On Monday, John wrote a post on Instagram saying that he had received the phone call. On Tuesday, the post went viral, penetrating even the Russian pro-government print media. By… [Read More]
Putin fired more than 100,000 people
Vladimir Putin has fired 110,000 people. The Russian president signed a decree two weeks ago that reduced the number of full-time employees in the interior ministry of Russia by about 10% — or 110,000 people. Most of the cuts will be to administrative staff. It will bring the total number of employees in the agency… [Read More]
How Vladimir Putin Came to Power [Full Documentary]
Brent Parrish The Right Planet The story of Russia’s El Presidente for Life (apparently), Vladimir Putin, is intriguing, to say the least. For over 15 years, Vladimir Putin has been the de facto supreme leader of the Russian Federation. Via WikiPedia: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012, succeeding… [Read More]
With eye on U.S. election, Republicans assail Russia’s Putin
Something about Vladimir Putin makes Republicans in the U.S. presidential race see red. The Russian president has emerged as a symbol for what they view as President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy, and an easy route for criticizing his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ likely choice for the November 2016 election. With… [Read More]
Why Putin’s Next War Will Be at Home
A pollster and a former Putin adviser predict new popularity problems—and renewed focus on domestic enemies. Vladimir Putin appeared this week in his annual marathon television broadcast to answer questions posed by viewers from across Russia. Of course, the four-hour show, Direct Line With Vladimir Putin, was carefully choreographed to avoid anything that could embarrass the Russian… [Read More]
Some Cheap Laughs: Special Russia Today Edition
Mark Nuckols, There is one news outlet whose op-eds are even more outrageously ridiculous than those in the NY Times. Russia Today is more the propaganda arm of the Kremlin than a bona fide news organization. In its so-called news coverage RT strives to put a blatantly pro-Kremlin, pro-Putin spin on every story, sometimes comically… [Read More]
Is Russia Against Fascism or Isn’t It?
‘Hitler couldn’t capture Leningrad, but these guys did’ The International Russian Conservative Forum was held in St. Petersburg on Sunday, purportedly a gathering of respectful traditionalists from the European Union, Russia and beyond, rather than a pep rally for fascists and racists. But the lineup, including Hitler apologists, Holocaust deniers, apartheid fans and a Russian skinhead… [Read More]
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is treading water in a sea of red ink
As President Vladimir Putin looks out on to the world stage, he should be relishing Russia’s renewed status as a global player. But when Putin looks homeward, he sees a different reality. Three months into 2015, Russia’s economic forecast ranges from gloomy to catastrophic. Yet in contrast to his aggressive response in Ukraine, Putin has been the… [Read More]
‘No, Putin is not dead,’ Kremlin says as rumors go viral on social media
State television footage of Putin working at his residence failed to quell the tide of fantastical theories circulating online that the 62-year-old Kremlin leader had died. A wave of savage mockery broke over President Vladimir Putin across the Internet on Friday, sparked by days of absence from public view, despite official insistence it was… [Read More]
Moscow mystery: Questions persist about Putin’s whereabouts
The more his people seek to assure the public that Vladimir Putin is just fine, the more speculation swirls that something - a love child, terminal illness or some exotic Kremlin intrigue - is up with the Russian president Rumors about Putin range from speculation he is sick or even dead to whispers he is… [Read More]
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