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VLADIMIR PUTIN

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2015
Putin bests Obama in Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin is building on a tactical advantage he has over the U.S. in talks with Iran: He can be the first to begin rapprochement with Iran's leaders, without worrying too much about its compliance with any nuclear deal's requirements.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2015
In Russia, Hillary Clinton would already have lost
If Hillary Clinton had just announced her candidacy to run for president in Russia, rather than in America, she'd already be in deep trouble.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 4, 2015
Russia's rich forgo some luxuries but still back Putin
Russian model Alisa Krylova canceled her order for the latest Mercedes, spent New Year's in Moscow rather than skiing in the Alps and now employs Russian staffers rather than foreigners.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2015
Putin and the neoconservatives
The national ambitions harbored by Vladimir Putin and American neoconservatives are troublingly similar.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2015
Why economic sanctions on Russia don't work
The more the West increases its economic pressure against Russia, the less likely it becomes that Russians will engage in dissent against the Putin regime.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2015
Soros says ready to invest $1 billlion in Ukraine if West helps
Billionaire financier George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there, and sees a 1 in 3 chance Greece will leave the euro, he told Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
WORLD
Mar 31, 2015
Slain Nemtsov's report proves Russian army in Ukraine, ally says
Research collected by the slain anti-Kremlin leader Boris Nemtsov shows evidence that Russian troops fought and died in the conflict in Ukraine, fellow opposition activist Ilya Yashin said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2015
Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat to U.S. than Putin, Assad: poll
A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian strongman Bashar Assad.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2015
Russia's air corps is a powerful but fading force
The modernization of Russia's still formidable but rapidly aging air force will be a daunting task.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2015
Russia treading water in sea of red ink
Russia's troubled domestic front is now catching up to President Vladimir Putin and limiting his regional and global aspirations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Weary of Russian invasion, nervous Poles join volunteer militias
Spurred by the war in Ukraine, growing numbers of Poles are joining volunteer paramilitary groups to get basic military training and prepare to defend their homeland from what some see as a looming Russian invasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2015
The resurrection of Vladimir Putin
There are clearly rival factions struggling to influence Russian President Vladimir Putin's decisions, but nobody can clearly say what they want or even who belongs to which one.
WORLD
Mar 20, 2015
EU agrees on keeping Russia sanctions until Ukraine peace terms met
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday that economic sanctions imposed on Russia will stay in place until a Ukraine peace deal is fully implemented, effectively extending them to the end of the year if need be.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2015
A-bomb survivor groups condemn Putin remark on nuclear readiness
Atomic-bomb survivor groups in Nagasaki and Hiroshima have condemned a recent remark by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he was ready to put his country's nuclear weapons on alert amid the crisis in Ukraine last year.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 18, 2015
Why Czar Vladimir Putin is always correct
Russians have endured some of the worst despots in history, yet they have a near-apocalyptic fear of change of power.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 18, 2015
Russia says Chinese, North Korean leaders to attend WWII commemorations in Moscow
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will attend celebrations in Moscow to commemorate the end of World War II.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2015
A year after Crimea, Putin is stronger than ever
In the year since he moved to annex Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin has consolidated his power and strengthened anti-Western sentiment in Russia enough that he feels safe taking credit for that bloodless invasion.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2015
Hiroshima mayor angry over Putin's nuclear weapons remark
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui expressed anger over Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks in a documentary broadcast Sunday that Moscow was ready to put its nuclear weapons on alert amid the crisis in Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Ukrainians leave, citing rebel area mismanagement
Looking out over the several hundred cars lined up to cross into Russia from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, Vladimir curses the separatist authorities who he says are forcing people to venture out of the rebel stronghold in search of basic needs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Kremlin declines comment on report Putin absent in Moscow: Dozhd
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined comment on a report from the independent news outlet Dozhd on Sunday that said Russian President Vladimir Putin had not been in Moscow for the last several days.

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