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  1. Feb 27

    It's becoming an increasingly popular analysis that Putin has lost his mind and the war represents a huge shift but that means ignoring years of insane behavior at home and abroad — poisoning a man in London with polonium, deploying Novichok, sending "secret" soldiers to Crimea.

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  2. Feb 23

    Many awful things in Putin’s early morning address just now but this stood out, sounded like a tacit threat of nuclear war.

    "To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside: if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history. All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me."
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  3. Apr 10

    “Ukrainian officials said Moscow’s aims likely go far beyond seizing these areas, and that Mr. Putin seeks to destroy the best Ukrainian units in the battle of Donbas to then try again to seize the rest of the country, including Kyiv.”

    Ukraine and Russia send reinforcements to Donbas, preparing for major new battle. Many of the tactical advantages that Ukraine enjoyed in the first phase of the war are absent on the Donbas front — which is why it needs new, heavier, weapons. My latest.
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  4. Mar 4

    Queer activists are among those staying—or returning to Ukraine—to fight the invasion by Russia and the assault on LGBT rights that is central to Putin’s worldview. "People are not coming back to the closet,” one activist told :

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  5. Feb 27

    it's all part of his own logic. Putin hasn't changed, people have finally woken up.

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  6. Feb 24

    Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Philharmonic have removed conductor and Putin associate Valery Gergiev from an upcoming program. His appearances are often accompanied by small protests, until now totally ignored

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  7. 2 Sep 2020

    Anytime a Russian opposition figure is attacked there’s a lot of mental gymnastics to try and explain that Putin didn’t order it or know about it. The use of a substance like Novichok on Navalny makes that a lot harder.

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  8. Mar 25

    People in my mentions want to think Putin is doing this to stoke division in the West. Sorry, being a reactionary conservative who trades in gender stereotypes and anti-LGBT bigotry is central to his ideology, and if it makes you uncomfortable to agree with him on this, well.

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  9. Mar 6

    He’s not suicidal, but if he goes down he’ll take as many people as possible with him. As one of his top propagandists said, what’s the point of a world without Russia in it, and Putin is defining his takeover of Ukraine as existential, and defining himself as the Russian state.

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    Would Putin ever use nuclear weapons to win his unprovoked war in Ukraine? Ex-deputy DNI Beth Sanner tells it’s unlikely but not impossible. says Putin is “evil, but not suicidal.”
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  10. Mar 24

    Russia is not an oligarchy but a criminal enterprise; people’s wealth is not their own, but Putin’s, which makes it all the more important they be targeted, writes Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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  11. 10 Mar 2020

    Among other things, this story reminded me that Putin — who has been in power for 21 years — is still younger than everyone running for US president

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  12. Jan 31

    Everyone’s always asking what Putin wants, but what does the West (insofar that concept still exists) want? Maybe start there

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  13. 16 Jun 2021

    The degree of attention being afforded the Biden-Putin meeting feels outsized (better suited to a Biden-Xi meeting) so already something of a win for the Kremlin

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  14. Mar 22

    With sentenced to a further 9 years on charges intended to crush opposition to Putin, read ’s essential profile of his wife Yulia from just a few months back

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  15. 21 Jun 2020

    Now that Bolton’s book has leaked online, everyone can save their money for next week’s actual bombshell release, Putin’s People by . Extract here

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  16. Mar 4

    Some may have seen this old video of Zelensky shutting down a homophobic heckler going around again recently. Nothing could be more different than Putin, whose assault on LGBT rights has been central to his authoritarianism

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    President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent press marathon was at one point interrupted by a heckler who accused the current president of continuing Petro Poroshenko’s course. Unexpectedly, the response revealed the head of state’s standpoint on .
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  17. 14 May 2020

    If you read one story on the situation in Russia and what it means for Putin. “For so many years his charisma was his bravado. Even if he was a son of a bitch, he was powerful...Now he looks like an old, sick wolf.”

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  18. 13 Jul 2020

    Oliver Stone thinks Putin has been in power for 20 years not because he subverted democratic norms and stifles dissent but because he reads

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  19. Mar 28

    "Abramovich was first brought into the peace talks as an unofficial channel to president Vladimir Putin by the Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky”

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  20. 18 Feb 2021

    Putin vacationing in Sochi during the Kursk tragedy vibes

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