vladimir putin

‘We are scared but we are ready’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 10, 2022
NEAR KYIV, Ukraine — In a snow-covered forest one hour outside Kyiv, I am watching 250 Ukrainian civilians train to defend their capital if the Russia...
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Putin is only pretending to be crazy on Ukraine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
ELI LAKE Tribune News Service 
Dec 29, 2021
Watching Vladimir Putin Thursday at his year-end press conference, one is tempted to ask whether the Russian president has gone mad. Here is a man lea...
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Putin wants to ‘renegotiate the 1990s’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 21, 2021
Thirty years ago this month, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Ukraine broke away from Moscow’s control. Russian President Vladimir Putin has never gott...
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Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be a right-wing hero
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 11, 2021
No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...
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Russia testing West’s resolve
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 08, 2021
Vladimir Putin wants the world to forget what happened in 2014. That’s the year he amassed troops at the Ukraine border to assist Russian-backed separ...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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Can Russia’s Putin shift into legacy rethink?
Local Columnists, Nation World
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Jun 22, 2021
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 G...
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The Biden-Putin summit: No lovefest, no illusions
Local Columnists, Nation World
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jun 21, 2021
Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir Putin said back ...
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Ransomware a 5-alarm fire
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 16, 2021
Throughout history, the march of technology has been followed by the unwelcome sutlers of organized crime, from high-seas piracy during the age of sai...
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Russia poisons relations with the West
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 14, 2020
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition politician who was poisoned on Aug. 20, is out of a coma. Navalny’s case should prompt the U.S. and NATO natio...
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Trump affinity for Russia baffling, dangerous
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ANN McFEATTERS, Tribune News Service 
Jul 06, 2020
WASHINGTON (TN S) — For five years, ever since Donald Trump announced he was running for president, we have heard allegations that he is inappropriate...
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Putin cannot be blamed for Trump’s base
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GEORGE PAYNE, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jul 30, 2018
For the record, I am against foreign interference in free elections. Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election is an assault on democracies everywher...
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From the Right: You won’t be speaking Russian anytime soon
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Jul 23, 2018
The Democrats and the mainstream media have enjoyed spectacular success in convincing a large domestic and international audience that U.S. politics h...
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Letter: A sad day for our country
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Jul 20, 2018
Monday was a sad day for our country and a great day for Vladimir Putin and Russia. Our president chose to believe Putin’s statement that the Russians...
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