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Russian Defense Ministry Press Service pool photo via … Don’t Fear the Russian Military
The week-long exercises, which kicked off yesterday, are intended as a show of might. But the country is in no position to wage a real conflict.
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Anton Vaganov / Reuters Punishing Putin Just Makes Him Stronger
Tougher sanctions will only make him double down on antagonizing the West.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters The Danger of a Deal With Putin
The Russian leader knows Trump needs to walk away claiming victory. That gives the Kremlin an advantage.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters Putin Finally Went Too Far
The unified international response to the Skripal poisoning shows that the West will only suffer so much provocation.
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Putin Is Playing a Dangerous Game in Syria
The Russian president is learning that it’s much easier to get into a Middle Eastern conflict than to get out of one.
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Stevo Vasiljevic / Reuters Is Trump Bad News for Putin?
The American president has not proved quite the ally Moscow may have expected.
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(Yury Martyanov / Reuters) What Exactly Are 'Kremlin Ties'?
Was the lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. an agent of Moscow or not? A little bit of both, maybe.
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Ria Novosti / Kremlin / Alexei Druzhinin / … The Spies Who Love Putin
How the FSB's loyalty to Russia's president made it the country's most powerful intelligence agency
