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Vladimir Putin stories: 214 news summaries

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Russian Warships Head to Venezuela for 'Training'

Chavez says coordinated exercise is 'warning' to US

Sep 22, 08 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russian warships left this morning for coordinated training exercises with the Venezuelan navy, the AFP reports. The group, consisting of a nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser, anti-submarine ship, and supporting craft, were seen firing artillery on the open ocean in tests. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said the deployment was a “warning”... More »

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Russia • Syria • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • Cold War • navy • military exercises

 Putin on 
 Georgia: 
 We Had 
 No Choice 

Russian PM warns against Europe 'arms race'

Sep 12, 08 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin stridently defended Russia’s invasion of Georgia yesterday, saying to do otherwise would be like his country “getting a bloody nose and hanging its head down,” the Independent reports. “They attacked South Ossetia with missiles, tanks, heavy artillery, and ground troops. What were we supposed... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • missile defense system • Cold War

Russia Claims US Citizen Provoked War

Cites teacher's found passport as proof of meddling in Georgia

Sep 3, 08 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - To support its claims that US intelligence agents played a role in the Georgian conflict, the Kremlin has produced a US passport belonging to an Army veteran from Texas, the Wall Street Journal reports. They say the passport was found in an outpost used by Georgian special forces. The alleged... More »

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China • Russia • CIA • Vladimir Putin • espionage • Soviet Union • KGB • Georgia • spy • international relations • passport

EU Holds Emergency Summit on Georgia

No sanctions or radical changes expected

Sep 1, 08 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - European Union leaders gather in Brussels in an emergency session today to review their stance on Russia’s invasion of Georgia. It's the first emergency EU meeting since the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003. With conflicting positions from the UK, France and Germany, analysts say the summit will... More »

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Russia • Germany • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Vladimir Putin • Gordon Brown • Georgia • energy independence

 Putin: US Sparked Georgia War

Part of plot to win votes for McCain, he claims

Aug 29, 08 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Invoking the era of Cold War conspiracies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of sparking conflict in Georgia to give John McCain a campaign boost. “They need a small victorious war,” the told CNN. He insisted the US encouraged Georgia to attack their two breakaway... More »

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Russia • John McCain • Vladimir Putin • State Department • Georgia • David Miliband • Dmitry Medvedev • George W. Bush • Abkhazia • South Ossetia • Shanghai Cooperation Organization

 West to Put Screws to Russia

New fury at Russia's formal recognition of breakaway states

Aug 27, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The West is preparing to crank up diplomatic pressure on Russia after its challenging move formally recognizing breakaway Ossetia and Abkhazia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The US, Europe and NATO have condemned the action, but Russia remains defiant. "We are not afraid of anything, including... More »

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Russia • NATO • Angela Merkel • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • David Miliband • Kremlin • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Analysis

 Germany Is Crux of Russia Talks

Merkel could be valuable go-between

Aug 25, 08 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fretful Eastern Europe is hoping Germany can play a key diplomatic role in its stare-down with Russia, the New York Times reports. Until recently, relations between Moscow and Berlin were too cozy for the Caucasus’ tastes, but East German-born Angela Merkel has distanced herself from Russia just enough... More »

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Russia • Angela Merkel • Germany • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • East Germany • Dmitry Medvedev • Gerhard Schröder • Chancellor of Germany

OPINION

Modern Bullies Aren't
World's Real Threat

Putin, Jintao no Stalin, Mao; today's rulers can't ignore democracy

Aug 23, 08 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world's strong-arm autocrats are surging to the fore, ignoring human rights, denying election results, and barging into neighboring nations. But Hu Jintao, Robert Mugabe and Vladimir Putin are not Mao, Hitler, or Stalin, Francis Fukuyama writes in the Washington Post. That “sort of ideological tyrant no longer... More »

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Robert Mugabe • Vladimir Putin • Hu Jintao • Hugo Chávez • authoritarianism • Francis Fukuyama • autocrat • liberal democracy

OPINION

Nuke Advantage Emboldened Putin's Russia

US disarmament partly to blame for Georgia war, says Schoenfeld

Aug 21, 08 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Diplomats and pundits have debated what led Russia to attack Georgia so forcefully, pointing to everything from newfound economic strength to a sense of national humiliation. But Gabriel Schoenfeld, editor at neoconservative magazine Commentary, has another explanation: it's Russia's growing nuclear advantage, especially with short-range arms, that has "helped... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • nuclear weapons • Georgia • Cold War • nuclear disarmament • nuclear arsenal • George W. Bush • neoconservatves

OPINION

Shunning Won't Work:
Invite Russia to Join NATO

Increased engagement with the bear will avert more crises: Meier

Aug 20, 08 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The kneejerk impulse to punish Russia for its Georgia incursion by withdrawing NATO civilities is exactly wrong, Andrew Meier writes in the Los Angeles Times. The only way the West can get leverage, given the case of nerves the Russians have over NATO’s expansion into former Soviet states,... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev

OPINION

Georgian War Lays Bare
Bush Policy's Failures

US encouraged Georgian bluster; provoked Russian paranoia

Aug 19, 08 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Georgian war crystallizes the failure of the Bush administration's foreign policy, writes HDS Greenway in the Boston Globe. Besides the ready-made justification the Iraq war provides to any invading country, America has stoked Georgian boldness, "and now America's client is wiping blood from its nose," he writes.... More »

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Russia • NATO • missile shield • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • America • Tbilisi

analysis

Old Cold War Rhetoric Won't Work on the
New Putin

He's not Hitler or Stalin; his is a 'subtler game'

Aug 19, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler and Stalin may invoke nostalgia in aging Cold Warriors, argues David Remnick in the New Yorker, but it ignores the realities of contemporary Russia as well as Putin’s actual motives. The Russian leader has been awaiting the chance to vent his resentment of NATO... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Cold War • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia

opinion

 Georgia Is the Victim, 
 So Blame Russia

History reveals Russia as the aggressor

Aug 17, 08 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why blame Georgia for Russia's invasion when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is clearly at fault? Putin has been seething ever since pro-Western Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in Georgia 3 years ago, writes Matthew Continetti in The Weekly Standard. "Putin has been pressuring Georgia for years," writes... More »

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Russia • NATO • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

ANALYSIS

In China and Russia,
a 'Springtime for Autocrats'

Is the Age of Authoritarianism upon us?

Aug 17, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The autocratic world powers that were crumbling in the late 1980s may yet have their day, and sooner than we think, writes executive editor Bill Keller in the New York Times. As China keeps its stranglehold on free speech despite promises to the IOC, and Russia tests how far it... More »

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China • Russia • communism • democracy • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • Cold War • foreign policy • George W. Bush • autocracies

White House Forced to Rethink Russian Relationship

Georgia action prompts US to reconsider Moscow ties

Aug 15, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's military action in Georgia was a rude awakening for the White House, forcing the Bush administration to reconsider the relationship it thought they had, the New York Times reports. President Bush has famously touted Vladimir Putin a reliable friend and diplomatic partner, despite policy differences, but cooperation across a... More »

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Bush administration • Russia • Robert Gates • Vladimir Putin • Department of Defense

 Rice Arrives in Georgia

American, European diplomats push to get Russian troops out

Aug 15, 08 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi today, where she said her immediate goal was to get Russian troops out of Georgia. The secretary of state stopped over in France to meet with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president who brokered a ceasefire that Moscow has flouted. Rice's trip follows an American airlift... More »

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Russia • diplomacy • Angela Merkel • Nicolas Sarkozy • Condoleezza Rice • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • South Ossetia

OPINION

Bush Doctrine Enabled Putin's Georgia War

Iraq action opened Pandora's box of unilateralism

Aug 14, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's "howls of outrage" at Russia's unilateral action and calls for regime change in the Caucasus ring more than a little hollow to Juan Cole of Salon, who remembers all too well a similar situation not long ago. "Vladimir Putin's invoking Bush's Iraq adventure points directly to... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • unilateralism • George W. Bush • UN Security Council • South Ossetia

ANALYSIS

Peace Deal Opened Door
to Russian Advance

Russian 'peacekeepers' given wide latitude in new pact

Aug 14, 08 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian convoy was headed deeper into Georgia within hours of a new peace deal thanks to a big loophole in the agreement, Andrew E. Kramer writes in the New York Times. The deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy allows Russian peacekeepers to implement unspecified "additional security measures,... More »

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Russia • diplomacy • Nicolas Sarkozy • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • peace deal • South Ossetia • Gori

OPINION

How the West's Mistakes Stoked War in Georgia

Diplomatic laziness increased the likelihood of conflict

Aug 13, 08 6:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the conflict between Georgia and Russia cooling and a truce in progress, it’s time for the West to appreciate its role in the conflict, writes Ronald D. Asmus for the New Republic.
  • From the early '90s, the West accepted the Russians as peacekeepers in the secession dispute.
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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • George HW Bush • separatists • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russia May Put Pressure on Ukraine Next

After dominating Georgia, Moscow could try to block NATO bid

Aug 13, 08 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - After flexing its military might against Georgia, Russia may next set its sights on US-backed Ukraine by trying to foil its attempts to join NATO, analysts say. Already, tensions are flaring, Bloomberg reports. Ukraine restricted the movements of Russian ships in the Black Sea, which are based at a Ukrainian... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Ukraine • Viktor Yushchenko • Dmitry Medvedev

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