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Freedom in the World.
ON THE COVER
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. 2016. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
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Freedom
House
Executive Summary
Breaking Down Democracy ... ideology or
the messianic notion of an ideal future society. Nor • Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, has
do today's autocrats seek totalitarian control over played an outsized role ... lasting feature of
tralize precisely those institutions that were thought geopolitics. Since 2012, both Vladimir Putin and Xi
to be the most potent weapons against a revitalized Jinping have doubled
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Schools_Are_STILL_Racist„Govemment_Report_Fmds_Joy_Resmovits_Huff
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Vladimir_Putin,Russian_Neocon_PETER_BEINART_The_Atlantic_March_24,_2014.doc
x; Confronting_Putin's_Russia ... make amends with the Taliban. Our latest bogyman, (although well-deserved), is Vladimir Putin. But
let's remember it was America and the EU who used the carrot of money ... read an interesting article this week in The Atlantic Magazine by Peter Beinart - Vladimir
Putin, Russian Neocon - that suggest Russia's President Vladimir Putin resembles the American
hawks who hate
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Conservative Republicans
most notably John McCain and Lindsey Graham blamed President Obama for Vladimir Putin feeling
dismissive of the U.S. role as the only indisputable super power and sending troops ... playing
marbles." Senator John McCain on Fox News: "This is a blatant act by Vladimir Putin and one that
must be unacceptable to the world community. Why do we care ... sending tanks in to Crimea is not a lasting solution even for Vladimir Putin.
President Obama plays the long ball, while McCain, Graham, Cruz and the 24 hour new cycle
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White
House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021; and Russian President Vladimir Putin
holding his annual press conference in Moscow on December 19, 2019. (Photo by
JIM WATSON ... White House in Washington,
DC, on January 20, 2021; and Russian President Vladimir Putin holding his annual press conference in
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Moscow on December 19, 2019. (Photo by JIM WATSON ... Ukraine hinge on finding the right mix of threatened responses to
deter Russian President Vladimir Putin. That requires knowing what he
wants and what costs he's willing to bear
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Arlecle I.
The New-Yorker
Putin Goes to War
David Remnick
March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a
plan for the winter ... dismissed as quickly — and
comprehensively — as Obama's warning Friday night to Russian President
Vladimir Putin. The former community organizer and the former Cold
Warrior share the barest of common ... Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-
Sisi was recently in Moscow visiting with Russian strongman Vladimir
Putin. Putin reportedly offered Sisi $2 billion in arms - just what a
country like Egypt
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Anode I.
The New-Yorker
Putin Goes to War
David Remnick
March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a
plan for the winter ... dismissed as quickly — and
comprehensively — as Obama's warning Friday night to Russian President
Vladimir Putin. The former community organizer and the former Cold
Warrior share the barest of common ... Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-
Sisi was recently in Moscow visiting with Russian strongman Vladimir
Putin. Putin reportedly offered Sisi $2 billion in arms — just what a
country like Egypt
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labyrinths, forgetting their original
virtuous purpose. Some point to the intelligence of Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Game Theory and encourage others to beat him at his
own game. Meanwhile ... past, according to a December Pew
Research poll. Not surprisingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears
to have read our passivity as a license to pursue control, if not conquest ... sees
an asymmetry of interests: Simply put, the future of Ukraine means more
to Vladimir Putin's Russia than it does to the U.S. or Europe. For Putin,
this
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more,
he is attempting to milk it for all it's worth. Russian President
Vladimir Putin said a deal could work only if the U.S. and its
relevant allies "tell ... President Obama has accepted an exit
strategy from the Syria crisis proposed by Vladimir Putin.
Obama surmised that if the plan works, it might lead to a
breakthrough ... Obama seemed to have climbed up the proverbial tree, and it
was Russian President Vladimir Putin who played a crucial role
in providing him a ladder to climb down
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Article I.
The New-Yorker
Putin Goes to War
David Remnick
March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and
autocrat, had a plan for the winter ... Field Marshal Abdul-
Fattah el-Sisi was recently in Moscow visiting with Russian
strongman Vladimir Putin. Putin reportedly offered Sisi $2
billion in arms — just what a country like Egypt ... supplier, at more than three times the
global market price for natural gas—and Vladimir Putin is not
afraid to use the threat of cutting off supplies for political
leverage
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Putin's Challenge to the West
Robert M. Gates
March 25, 2014 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-festering
grudge: He deeply resents the West for winning the Cold ... greatest duty of a statesman is to educate." The
aggressive, arrogant actions of Vladimir Putin require from Western
leaders strategic thinking, bold leadership and steely resolve—now.
Mr. Gates served ... look as good or as bad as you thought.
And that brings me to Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea.
The morning after, he was the hero of Russia. Some
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Bloomberg
U.S. Officials: Blame Palestinians, Too
Jeffrey Goldberg
At National Review Online
What Drives Vladimir Putin?
Victor Davis Hanson
Article 4.
The Washington Post
Obama needs to lead with feeling ... winner of the National Magazine Awardfor
reporting.
ArliCi, 3.
National Review Online
What Drives Vladimir Putin?
Victor Davis Hanson
May 8, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin's Russia is a disaster ... want the moral and
political satisfaction of a great global struggle. We all accuse
Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites —
politicians and intellectuals — miss
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Endowment for International Peace
Putin's National Security Vision
Dmitri Trenin
February 24, 2012 -- Vladimir Putin has laid down his views on Russia's
national security policy. In an article ... Putin is determined to push the
plan through-and he might succeed.
Still, Vladimir Putin's vision of national security begs several serious
questions. The first is whether the massive ... Endowment for International Peace
Putin's National Security Vision
Dmitri Trenin
February 24, 2012 -- Vladimir Putin has laid down his views on Russia's
national security policy. In an article
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from President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry
and, perhaps most significantly, Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the
momentum toward U.S. intervention appears to be increasing, as
congressional support grows ... this week in St. Petersburg, Russia. But since the meeting's host is
President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Assad's arms supplier, even that may be
unlikely.
Allicle 5.
The Guardian ... they may
find themselves thinking much the same. Over Syria — but also more
generally — Vladimir Putin's Russia has proved strong enough to frustrate
the US at key moments
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Hamas
Adnan Abu Amer
Articles.
The Washington Post
Why the study of Vladimir Putin is so important
Richard Cohen
Article 6.
BBC
The deep discord bedevilling the Arab world
Gerald ... arms. Even from their own
perspective, how can the Saudis possibly hope to persuade Vladimir Putin
about the high costs of backing Syrian President Bashar Assad if they are
going ... cause and
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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The Washington Post
Why the study of Vladimir Putin is so
important
Richard Cohen
March 24, 2014 -- "'Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay
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Will sustained economic, political and military isolation of
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Russia work? Will it reverse Vladimir Putin's adventurism and deter future
aggression?
Here there is a recent historical precedent. President ... Washington Post
The wages of weakness
Charles Krauthammer
March 7, 3:01 AM -- Vladimir Putin is a lucky man. And he's got three
more years of luck to come ... read this, 46m people are being held hostage in
Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has pulled Russian troops back from the country's
eastern border. But he has also demanded that
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