Tag: Vladimir Putin

President Obama got some chilling news from a USA Today/Pew poll this week

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: Festering Veterans Affairs scandal undermines Obama

Paul Bedard · May 24, 2014 10:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Investment Forum Friday, May 23, 2014. Putin said Friday at an investment forum that Russia will "respect the choice of the Ukrainian people." He said that Russia wants peace and order to be restored in Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin promises to respect Ukraine’s election

LAURA MILLSPETER LEONARD · May 23, 2014 9:00 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy actions suggest that he wants to restore the old Soviet Union, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said when asked about U.S. intelligence reveals about the former KGB spy's "calculus."ÃÂ (AP/Mandel Ngan)

Beltway Confidential

Chuck Hagel: Vladimir Putin wants to restore Soviet Union

Joel Gehrke · May 23, 2014 3:37 pm

President Obama will not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at next month's D-Day memorial service in Normandy, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

President Obama and Vladimir Putin will not meet at June 6 D-Day memorial

Kevin Daley · May 21, 2014 10:12 pm

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. China signed a landmark deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth about $400 billion, giving a boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin and expanding Moscow's ties with Asia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Ukraine sees letup in tensions, but vote at risk

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVPETER LEONARD · May 21, 2014 6:15 pm

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and China's President Xi Jinping review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Xijiao State Guesthouse ahead of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Barria, Pool)

China gives Putin a diplomatic boost

Louise Watt · May 20, 2014 10:11 am

Russian Prime Minister: We Are ‘Approaching a Second Cold War’

Daniel Halper · May 20, 2014 10:08 am

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, second left, and Ukraine's former presidents Leonid Kuchma, first right, and Leonid Kravchuk, second right, during a round table reform discussion in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, May 17, 2014. First left is Minister of regional development Volodymyr Groisman. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, pool)

Eastern Ukrainians rap Kiev in talks

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 18, 2014 12:05 am

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague as they gather for a group photo of the London 11 at the Foreign Office in London, Thursday, May 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)

National Security

Kerry: US set to levy more sanctions on Russia

Deb Riechmann · May 15, 2014 6:27 pm

Putin says Ukraine must pay cash for gas in June

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 15, 2014 2:53 pm

Denis Pushilin, center, a leader of the insurgency that has declared an independent "people's republic" in the Donetsk region, speaks at a news conference in eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk on Wednesday May 14, 2014. Pushilin said his faction wasn't invited to a government-organized roundtable talks in Kiev. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine begins peace talks _ without separatists

YURAS KARMANAUNATALIYA VASILYEVA · May 14, 2014 8:27 pm

Sen. John McCain said if he were president, he would send U.S. troops to Nigeria to rescue the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by an Islamist rebel group, regardless of whether he had the permission of the Nigerian government. (AP Photo/David Azia)

John McCain said he’d send U.S. troops to rescue captive Nigerian girls

Susan Ferrechio · May 13, 2014 4:00 am