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Putin Rewrites History to Justify His Dependence on China
26Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Putin Rewrites History to Justify His Dependence on China

Vladimir Putin has typically presented himself as a Russian nationalist, so his recent foray into the Middle Ages must have surprised his supporters. In a speech on Nov. 3, Mr. Putin lauded the Mongol rulers of the Golden Horde, the successor state to Genghis Khan’s empire, for saving Russian lands from Western influences. Until now, Russians saw the 2½ centuries of Mongol rule as a period of national humiliation, a yoke that arrested the country’s development and accounted for its perennial backwardness. In a dramatic reversal, Mr. Putin spun a new narrative to justify wrenching Russia away from Western values and toward a brutal autocratic rule. Throughout his 24 years in power, Mr. Putin developed a large imperial wardrobe, donning the mantles of various Russian rulers as it suited the...
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Vladimir Putin Harasses Finland – WSJ
25Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Vladimir Putin Harasses Finland – WSJ

Vladimir Putin likes to stir up trouble with neighbors even when he isn’t invading them. Witness his latest effort to use migration to bedevil Finland.Finland announced that on Nov. 24 it will close all but one of its border crossings with Russia. Finnish authorities cited Section 16 of the country’s Border Guard Act, which allows closures to prevent a threat to national security and public order. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Ordinary Russians Feel Wrath of Putin’s Repression
11Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Ordinary Russians Feel Wrath of Putin’s Repression

In a city in southern Siberia, security forces detained a man in October for reading antiwar poetry at a literary event. Authorities in Novosibirsk fined a woman 15,000 rubles around the same time for tearing down a poster exalting Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.In St. Petersburg, a man was briefly detained in September for holding a poster reading, “Wishing for peace is not a crime! I am against war.” The cases, all documented by OVD-Info, a human-rights group that monitors police detentions and helps protesters find lawyers, speak to new levels of repression in Russia, as President Vladimir Putin seeks to crush even the most innocuous opposition to his war on Ukraine. Prominent opposition politicians, human-rights activists and journalists have been jailed for lengthy terms, slapp...
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Trump’s New Claim About Putin Has Critics Rushing To Mock Him
3Nov By adminNo Comments
Politics

Trump’s New Claim About Putin Has Critics Rushing To Mock Him

Former President Donald Trump championed his administration’s approach to Russia before naming one leader as the inspiration behind his stance: Russian President Vladimir Putin.“They say ‘Trump wasn’t tough on Russia,’ I was so tough on Russia. Putin said ’If you’re not tough now, I’d hate like hell to see you if you weren’t tough,” Trump said at a rally in Houston, Texas on Thursday.Trump’s remarks arrived as he spoke of his administration’s response to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, a means of increasing export of natural gas from Russia to Germany in a project that he claimed to have “ended.”The former president has made the false claim before about the pipeline at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference, according to FactCheck.org, and “misleadingly” added that Pres...
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The Iran-Russia Military Axis – WSJ
2Nov By adminNo Comments
World

The Iran-Russia Military Axis – WSJ

Republican critics of aiding Ukraine claim that there’s no connection between Russia’s aggression and the war in Israel. They’re ignoring the major strategic development in the last year, which is the deepening military alliance between Russia and Iran that threatens U.S. interests.The Journal reported Thursday that the U.S. has intelligence that Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is planning to send air defenses to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is one of Iran’s proxy militias and has threatened to open a second front against Israel. The air defenses would complicate Israel’s ability to defend its cities from Hezbollah’s missile attacks.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Justice Department and Russian Billionaire Battle Over Seized Superyacht
23Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Justice Department and Russian Billionaire Battle Over Seized Superyacht

Oct. 23, 2023 12:58 pm ETThe Justice Department last year seized a superyacht as part of a crackdown on Russia’s business elite. Now a tug of war has erupted over who owns it.On Monday, as a Russian oil tycoon sued the U.S. government to get the 348-foot Amadea back, prosecutors said it isn’t his and sought to have it forfeited, saying it really belongs to another billionaire close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Russia’s State Duma Votes to Revoke Ratification of Nuclear-Test-Ban Pact
17Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Russia’s State Duma Votes to Revoke Ratification of Nuclear-Test-Ban Pact

Russia’s legislature voted unanimously to revoke its ratification of a significant international nuclear-test-ban treaty, a move that threatens to intensify global insecurity amid the war in Ukraine and the mounting crisis in the Middle East.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Hillary Clinton Says Divide Over Ukraine Aid In Congress Is A Win For Putin
4Oct By adminNo Comments
Politics

Hillary Clinton Says Divide Over Ukraine Aid In Congress Is A Win For Putin

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the current wrangling in Congress over funding Ukraine as it continues to fight a war against Moscow is working in the interest of Russian President Vladimir Putin.“I think Putin is not only thrilled by the divide over whether we continue, and at what levels, to fund Ukraine. I think he is fomenting it as well,” Clinton told PBS Newshour in an interview broadcast Tuesday.While Clinton recognized that most lawmakers still favor continued U.S. support for the war-torn country, she also noted the “partisan political divide” over the issue.“Honestly, I don’t understand any American siding with Putin, but we have seen it, and we have heard it, and we have to fight against it,” Clinton added.In August, President Joe Biden asked Congress for an addi...
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