Aging Putin brings younger generation, family members into circle amid Kremlin instability: report

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain ...
Council on Foreign RelationsOpinion

Putin Courts a ‘Global Majority’ From Russia

Xi meeting and a string of international summits this fall will show that Putin did not just gamble the Russian economy with ...

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Protagonist Reveals Threats, Braces for ‘Second Wave of Hate’ From Russia Amid Oscar Campaign: ‘We Are Going to Kneecap You’

Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ protagonist Pavel 'Pasha' Talankin talks threats and upcoming second wave of hate from Russia amid ...

Putin Builds Air Defense Citadel As The Drone Siege Of Moscow Begins (Updated)

Putin is massing air defences around Moscow for a long winter of drone attacks. That means leaving other areas undefended, ...
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The EconomistOpinion

What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?

“H ISTORY TEACHES that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap,” argued President Ronald Reagan in 1984. He oversaw a vast increase in America’s defence budget that the ...
Daily Express US on MSN

Vladimir Putin's popularity plummets as Russians turn on him over 'worsening' economy

Vladimir Putin is facing mounting pressure as new data shows that more Russians are complaining of floundering economic ...
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I’m a Russian dissident living in London. Putin knows the end is coming soon

Mikhail Khodorkovsky spent over 10 years in Putin's jails. He tells The i Paper that the Russian regime has an Achilles heel ...

Russian honeypot reveals how Putin’s sex spies seduce Silicon Valley nerds to learn secrets

Aliia Roza, a former Russian "sex spy" who claims she was trained to seduce and manipulate targets, said she studied ...