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VLADIMIR PUTIN

Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 17, 2021
Biden and Putin paper over splits as both claim summit victories
Putin got one thing he craved — legitimacy on the international stage. Biden argued he confronted Putin over cyberattacks and Russia's treatment of democracy activists.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2021
Putin eyes working with 'predictable' Biden as Russia-U.S. ties remain tense
Putin suggested that, in spite of heightened tensions with the U.S., he may be able to work with Biden in part because he's more predictable than Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 10, 2021
Court outlaws Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's network in pre-election knockout
The ruling delivers a final blow to a vast political network that Navalny built up over many years to try to challenge Putin's grip on power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2021
Don’t let autocrats run the internet after COVID-19
Lukashenko's government blocked much of the internet during protests last summer with the help of technology from U.S.-based Sandvine Inc.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 3, 2021
Hacks force Biden into more aggressive stance on Russia
The U.S. president has launched a review of the threat posed by ransomware after an attack on JBS, the world's largest meatpacker.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2021
Belarus' Lukashenko: Hijacking Western complacency
To the European Union, Lukashenko has issued a direct challenge: “We can make fools of you whenever it suits us, and you will not hurt us, because you are weak.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2021
Russia’s bear economy
Lacking secure property rights and being subject to Western sanctions, Russia can attract only fools and crooks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 30, 2021
Alexei Navalny’s network crumbling under Kremlin pressure
The move seems likely to push resistance to Putin further underground as the Kremlin's yearslong effort to suppress dissent enters a more aggressive phase.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021
The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny
That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn't in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 24, 2021
After testing the world’s limits, Putin steps back from the brink
The Russian president went up to the brink — and then, with the eyes of the world upon him, stepped back from it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 16, 2021
Biden seeking ‘stable, predictable’ ties with Putin after imposing sanctions
The U.S. president said he was fulfilling a campaign vow to hold Russia accountable, and that he could have gone further but chose to be 'proportionate.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2021
Elon Musk leaves Vladimir Putin stranded on Earth
A combination of Russian bureaucracy, military secrecy and a state-dominated economy have failed to foster private space enterprises of the kind driving innovation in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2021
Russian troop movements and talk of intervention cause jitters in Ukraine
Russia has amassed more troops on the Ukrainian border than at any time since 2014. Western governments are asking: Why now?
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 19, 2021
Putin offers Biden public talks after U.S. president calls Russian leader a killer
Putin, speaking on television, cited a Russian children's playground chant to scathingly respond to Biden's accusation with the comment that 'he who said it, did it.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2021
Putin's Potemkin empire
Putin's Russia is shakier than most believe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 17, 2021
Putin likely directed 2020 U.S. election meddling, U.S. intelligence finds
The report added heft to longstanding allegations that some of Trump's top lieutenants were playing into Moscow's hands by amplifying claims made against Biden.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2021
Putin is losing the battle for Russia’s future
Since Russians began protesting opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment, the security forces have apparently had carte blanche to arrest demonstrators — and they have done so by the thousands. If Russians so much as honk their car horns in solidarity with the protesters, they risk personal...
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 28, 2021
In Germany's Black Forest, Putin critic Alexei Navalny gathered strength and resolve
Navalny spent time recovering his physical fitness with intense workouts and took his war with Putin to a new level: targeting him directly for the first time.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2021
Germany’s empty pipeline logic
The pipeline across the Baltic has pitted the United States and the European Union against Germany, and a swelling chorus of domestic critics against German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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