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10 Apr 2018, 1:27 pm by Tom Smith
1) The Obama administration’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to come into Syria ostensibly to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
18 Dec 2016, 10:43 am by Steve Lubet
Andy Borowitz is saying untrue things about Donald Trump, including his latest claim that Vladimir Putin is going to sing at the presidential inauguration: WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After having difficulty persuading prominent entertainers to participate at the event, the Trump transition team announced on Sunday that the Russian President Vladimir Putin would sing at Donald J. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Hypo: A cartoonist wants to make the point that Vladimir Putin and Russia are dictating U.S. policy and that President Trump is following without thought or consideration and without knowing where he is going. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 4:25 am
[JURIST] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [official website, in Russian] said Thursday that last week's nightclub fire in Perm [BBC report] exposed widespread corruption [press release, in Russian; video, in Russian] among bureaucrats. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 12:41 pm by Addison Morris
The protesters were arrested [Guardian report] the night before Vladimir Putin's inauguration to his third term as president. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 2:54 pm by Timothy B. Lee
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks in Moscow on March 14, 2019. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 5:16 am
"'Putin’s goal is to transition to a respectful adversarial relationship from the disrespectful one we have today,' said Vladimir Frolov, a Russian foreign affairs columnist. 'That seems to be in line with Biden’s objectives for a "predictable and stable relationship. [read post]
On March 4, President Putin signed amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which sought to protect the truth about the “special military operation in Ukraine. [read post]
The UK government Wednesday unveiled new sanctions on members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle in response to the ongoing war in Ukraine. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 4:06 am
What an ideal vector for the Putin-is-poisoning-Hillary theory! [read post]
26 Mar 2022, 10:01 am
Today they are trying to cancel a thousand-year-old country,' Putin said during a televised meeting with Russian winners of cultural prizes. 'I am talking about the progressive discrimination against everything connected with Russia, about this trend that is unfolding in a number of western states, with the full connivance and sometimes with the encouragement of western elites.... [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 9:15 am
Here’s an interesting piece of modern Russian legal history: In 2006, oil company Yukos, once Russia’s largest private company, was re-nationalized by then-President Vladimir Putin — a move that many saw as retribution for the counter-Kremlin political activities of Yukos chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 5:30 am by Tom Smith
President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's military to increase its focus on the Arctic and finish plans by the end of the year to upgrade military bases in the resource-rich region where world powers jostle for control.Speaking to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin praised the military's work in the Arctic, where Canada said on Monday it was claiming the North Pole as part of an broader claim on the region.The United States, Denmark and Norway are also pressing for… [read post]
17 Dec 2006, 1:35 pm
[JURIST] Organizers and observers of a Moscow rally [JURIST report] held Saturday by a coalition of opposition parties protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly-restrictive rights record [JURIST news archive] were quoted in press reports Sunday as saying that police pulled hundreds of would-be demonstrators off buses heading for the unusual rally even before it took place. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 4:06 am
The increasingly repressive government of Russian Prime Minister (and former President) Vladimir Putin has now gone so far as to ban satirical criticism of his regime on TV broadcasts:... [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 12:06 pm by firstamendmentblogger
Yesterday in Moscow thousands rallied to protest irregularities in the recent parliamentary election and to oppose the imminent campaign of Vladimir Putin to regain the Russian presidency. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 4:36 am
AND HE EARNED EVERY PENNY: "Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose alleged accumulated wealth of $40bn would make him Europe's richest man. [read post]
5 May 2022, 10:00 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree listing several retaliatory special economic measures against legal entities and individuals, as well as organizations controlled by them, to be designated by the Russian government. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
In an effort to reclaim and repatriate Russia’s cultural legacy, President Vladimir Putin ordered his government to consider buying the archive and Swiss estate of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff at a price of about $20 million. [read post]