Tag: Vladimir Putin

Beltway Confidential

Did Ukraine attack the Kremlin or did Russia?

Tom Rogan · May 3, 2023 4:40 pm

Moscow hasn't hesitated to threaten U.S. media when RT has been criticized, as it was last year when a State Department spokesman alluded to their government-run nature. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken says Putin assassination claims should be taken with ‘a very large shaker of salt’

Mike Brest · May 3, 2023 3:44 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Altai Territory Governor Viktor Tomenko during their meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 2, 2023.

Russia claims Putin survived assassination attempt by Ukraine

Brady Knox · May 3, 2023 2:01 pm

Putin would be arrested at summit, South Africa warns Russia: ‘We have to’

Putin would be arrested at summit, South Africa warns Russia: ‘We have to’

Joel Gehrke · May 1, 2023 7:18 pm

In this photo taken from video released by Russian TV Pool on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) attends a meeting with commander of the grouping of troops "Dnepr" Col. Gen. Oleg Makarevich (right) and Commander of the Airborne Forces, Col. Gen. Mikhail Teplinskiy at the headquarters of the group of troops "Dnepr" in the Kherson direction, at an undisclosed location, Ukraine.

Beltway Confidential

Russia mobilization rhetoric hints at shift to static defense strategy

Tom Rogan · April 19, 2023 8:31 pm

In this photo taken from video released by Russian TV Pool on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at an undisclosed location. The Kremlin says Putin has visited the headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.

Putin visits Russian troops in occupied southern Ukraine

Conrad Hoyt · April 18, 2023 7:59 am

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to improve government services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington. Bidenâs long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office. He achieved it, albeit at 78 the oldest person to assume the presidency.

Biden is financing Putin’s war machine with his anti-American energy policy

James Taylor · April 14, 2023 12:19 am

FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen, as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in a courtroom of the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. A judge in the Vladimir regional city of Kovrov on Nov. 10 dismissed Alexei Navalny's protest against his confinement in a punishment cell. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Putin critic Navalny’s health deteriorating in prison

Brady Knox · April 13, 2023 2:52 am

Foreign Affairs Committee to examine Putin’s ‘atrocities’ in hearing next week

Foreign Affairs Committee to examine Putin’s ‘atrocities’ in hearing next week

Ryan King · April 12, 2023 7:11 pm

Ukraine leaks give Biden big headaches at a bad time

Haisten Willis · April 11, 2023 8:00 am

Washington Secrets

Biden stops US funding of Putin’s kitten torture lab

Paul Bedard · April 10, 2023 5:50 pm

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the rest of the bipartisan congressional delegation is welcomed by Taiwan's Legislative Yuan.

Taiwanese speaker says island must become ‘fish bone’ that Xi Jinping would choke on

Jerry Dunleavy · April 8, 2023 12:33 am