Tag: Vladimir Putin

Edward Snowden, displayed on television screens, asks a question to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a nationally televised question-and-answer session, in Moscow, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Speaking in a televised call-in show with the nation, Putin harshly criticized the West for trying to pull Ukraine into its orbit and said that people in eastern Ukraine have risen against the authorities in Kiev, who ignored their rights and legitimate demands. Putin also took a video question from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, whom Russia granted asylum last year. Asked by Snowden about Russia's surveillance programs, Putin said that Russian special services also tap on communications in their fight against terrorism, but don't do it on such a massive scale as the U.S. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

National Security

Edward Snowden questions Vladimir Putin on surveillance policies

Laura Mills · April 17, 2014 3:44 pm

Beltway Confidential

Poland uneasy about Russian invasion after events in Ukraine

Joel Gehrke · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a nationally televised question-and-answer session in Moscow on Thursday. Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed claims that Russian special forces are fomenting unrest in eastern Ukraine as "nonsense," but expressed hope for success of four-way talks on settling the crisis. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Vladimir Putin to Edward Snowden: Russia’s surveillance not on such a massive scale as the U.S.

Associated Press · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

A pro-Russian gunman clears the way for a combat vehicle with gunmen on top in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Obama and the myth of appeasement

Steve Chapman · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Obama: Military options ‘not on the table in Ukraine’

Susan Crabtree · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Edward Snowden, displayed on television screens, asks a question to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a nationally televised question-and-answer session, in Moscow on Thursday. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Beltway Confidential

Edward Snowden asks Vladimir Putin about mass surveillance in Russia

Ashe Schow · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Mitch McConnell called for the arming of Ukraine to scare off Russia. AP Photo

National Security

Mitch McConnell wants U.S. to arm Ukraine

Paul Bedard · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Podcast: Time to Push Back Against Putin

TWS Podcast · April 16, 2014 1:30 pm

A pro-Russian gunman clears the way for a combat vehicle with gunmen on top in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Obama must defend NATO’s real red lines from Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine

Michael Barone · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of a board of trustees of the Russian Geographical Society in a library of Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Germany’s Merkel calls Putin to discuss Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 7:49 pm

Armed pro-Russian activists walk through a street near to the seized Ukrainian regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

National Security

Little sign of progress as Obama, Vladimir Putin speak

Julie Pace · April 15, 2014 3:35 am

An Unfriendly Fly-By

Geoffrey Norman · April 14, 2014 5:26 pm