Putin

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• 1/19/20
  

  Poles Apart: Putin, Poland and the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  by Geoffrey Roberts

  As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, two of that war’s main victims – Poland and Russia – are once again embroiled in a highly emotional dispute about its origins. At the heart of the matter is the perennial controversy about the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/5/20
  

  Putin’s Big Historical Lie

  by Anne Applebaum

  In a series of comments in late December, the Russian president appeared to blame Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback’s Conversations
  7/5/19
  

  Explaining Putin’s World: A Conversation with Angela Stent

  How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad

  by William J. Burns

  An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.

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• 1/27/19
  

  What Do the Russians Think About Trump, Putin, and America?

  by Walter Moss

  Most Americans know little about Russia and Russians except that they might have interfered in our 2016 elections.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-12-2018
  

  Putin’s Stasi ID Is Found in German Archive

  Long before he was president of Russia, Vladimir Putin worked as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden in the former East Germany and had access to Germany’s dreaded secret police.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-4-18
  

  Foreign powers interfered in the 1968 election. Why didn’t LBJ stop them?

  by Arnold A. Offner

  Was his disdain for his vice president greater than his desire for Democrats to win?

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9-20-18
  

  Who Putin Is Not

  by Stephen F. Cohen

  Falsely demonizing Russia’s leader has made the new Cold War even more dangerous.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-24-18
  

  Max Boot says flatly that without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won

  "Russian disinformation wasn’t the only factor in the outcome and was probably less important in the end than FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement 11 days before the election that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation.” But it mattered.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  7-23-18
  

  Putin is weak. Europe doesn’t have to be.

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Moscow is a sideshow. The real dangers come from within the continent.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-22-18
  

  The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling

  by Peter Beinart

  Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7-17-18
  

  Trump has taken Putin's side

  by Tom Nichols

  His stability and America's safety are now in question.

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• 7/19/18
  

  Mr. Trump goes to Helsinki

  by William R. Polk

  Hard truths we need to face.  One of which is this: Mr. Trump’s boorishness is not the issue.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-17-18
  

  Putin Compares Deaths of Political Opponents to JFK Assassination

  In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Putin said death comes to all sorts of people involved in politics. 

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-17-18
  

  Did Trump Commit Treason at Putin Meeting?

  Here's what lawyers say.

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• 7/18/18
  

  Putin-Trump Summit: What Historians Are Saying

  Their tweets and retweets.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-14-18
  

  At Summit Meetings, Kremlin Often Tried to Steamroller U.S. Presidents

  Whether in Helsinki or elsewhere, a summit meeting held by any American president with a Kremlin counterpart has proved to be a momentous occasion, particularly during the Cold War when such talks held the promise of staving off Armageddon.

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• 6/17/18
  

  Is the West in Disarray?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-13-18
  

  ‘This Is Not a Drill’: The Growing Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

  As more nations seek the bomb, and as the United States and Russia expand their nuclear arsenals, veterans of the Cold War say the public is too complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe.

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• SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
  5-13-18
  

  To understand Putin, you must understand Russian history

  The calamities of the Soviet collapse planted Mr. Putin’s single-minded aim to position Russia as “a strong and sovereign nation” — terms in which he describes Alexander’s Russia in the 1880s.