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Nov 24, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Nataliya Vasilyeva |Valerie Hopkins
By Nataliya Vasilyeva and Valerie Hopkins November 24, 2024 — 4.33pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The day after President Vladimir Putin raised the stakes in tensions with the West, many Russians awoke Friday feeling anxious that the prospect of nuclear war had come slightly closer.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Valerie Hopkins |David Pierson
Greeting world leaders this week in western Russia, President Vladimir Putin has rolled out a red-carpet welcome in his pursuit of partners, like China and Iran, interested in ending U.S. dominance over the international financial system. But one guest among the dozens of leaders present was not like the others.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Valerie Hopkins |David Pierson
By Valerie Hopkins and David Pierson October 23, 2024 — 12.38pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kazan, Russia: Isolated by the West for his war in Ukraine, Russia President Vladimir Putin has scored a diplomatic victory by welcoming the leaders of China, India and South Africa at the opening of a summit of emerging market countries bidding to rebalance a world order now dominated by the United States.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Valerie Hopkins |David Pierson
President Vladimir Putin of Russia arrived in Mongolia late Monday for his first state visit to a member of the International Criminal Court since it issued a warrant for his arrest in March 2023. The court accused Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights of being personally responsible for the “unlawful deportation” and transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Valerie Hopkins |David Pierson
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Ann Scott Tyson |Daisuke Wakabayashi |Claire Fu |Valerie Hopkins
Korea has not been the only battleground since the end of the Second World War. Men have fought and died in Malaya, in Greece, in the Philippines, in Algeria and Cuba and Cyprus, and almost continuously on the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. No nuclear weapons have been fired. No massive nuclear retaliation has been considered appropriate.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Andrei Kolesnikov |Denis Volkov |Valerie Hopkins
It’s been almost two years since the Kremlin launched what it terms its “special military operation” against Ukraine, and most Russians have learned to cope with wartime pressures by distancing themselves as much as possible from what is unfolding on the battlefield. At the same time, hopes for peace—or at least peace talks—are becoming more and more common.
How can this combination of indifference and a desire for peace be explained?
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Valerie Hopkins
Nadezhda Shtovba did not wear a white dress to her wedding. There were no bridesmaids or groomsmen. She and her husband, Yegor, did not exchange wedding bands either — rings are banned in Butyrka prison. That is where Yegor Shtovba has spent the past 15 months in pretrial detention. In September 2022, he had read a love poem written for Nadezhda at a public gathering, his first time sharing his work in front of a crowd.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Valerie Hopkins |Ivan Nechepurenko
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would run for re-election in March, seeking a fifth term that would extend his rule to 2030 and, if served to completion, make him Russia’s longest-serving leader since Catherine the Great in the late 18th century. In the absence of genuine political opposition, Putin is all but assured of winning another six-year term that will prolong his authoritarian grip.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Valerie Hopkins |Ivan Nechepurenko
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would run for reelection in March, seeking a fifth term that would extend his rule to 2030 and, if served to completion, make him Russia’s longest-serving leader since Catherine the Great in the late 18th century. In the absence of genuine political opposition, Putin is all but assured of winning another six-year term that will prolong his authoritarian grip.
