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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet for talks at the Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (TNS)

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…

Martin Schram 19 June 2021

The Price of Peace in the Donbas

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyhas staked his presidency on ending the war againstMoscow-backed insurgents in the Donbas region of easternUkrainein a manner that will not break his country…

Thomas Graham and Joseph Haberman 06 March 2020

Mikhail Mishustin: From Little-Know Tax Chief to the Second Most Powerful Politician in Russia

When Russians woke up on the morning on January 16, few knew the name Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, the head of the country’s tax service. But by the time they went to bed that night,…

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Putin Welcomes Stalin Back to the Pantheon

OnNovember 10, 1982, the Soviet leaderLeonid Brezhnevdied. The editors ofPravda, the country’s main newspaper, confronted something of a dilemma. A black frame would surround the front page to…

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Moscow’s Nuclear Enigma

Talk to anybody in Washington and you will hear an ominous mantra: the Russians are back. A resurgent Moscow is sowing discord among Western states and trying to re-establish its sphere of influence…

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Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

The Price of Peace in the Donbas

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Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

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