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[caption id="attachment_55255343" align="aligncenter" width="3882"] Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his New Year address to Russians in central Moscow on December 31, 2017.(Getty)[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55255339" align="aligncenter" width="4409"] In this photograph taken on April 11, 2017, an Afghan security force personnel patrols inside a mosque during an ongoing an…

[caption id="attachment_55255337" align="aligncenter" width="5568"] Turkish army tanks and soldiers gather close to the Syrian border on January 21, 2018 at Hassa, in Hatay province. (Getty)[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55255333" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (L) is welcomed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in Beijing on December…

[caption id="attachment_55255277" align="aligncenter" width="2606"] A portrait of the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, is seen on November 5, 2017, in the southern…

[caption id="attachment_55255280" align="aligncenter" width="1880"] MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 30 :Russia's President Vladimir Putin lays a bunch of red roses at the unveiling of the Wall of Grief…

[caption id="attachment_55255283" align="aligncenter" width="5024"] Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen his visit to the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) , who submitted…

[caption id="attachment_55255212" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Anti-government protesters clash with police in Independence square on February 20, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Getty)[/caption] by…

by Joseph Braude* Late last year, two scholars with an interest in Russian affairs, Mieczyslaw Boduszynski and Philip Breeden, penned an article for the University of Southern California’s Center…