On Victory Day, Putin paints Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine as a response to the West
In Moscow and Kyiv on Monday, two countries at war fought over the meaning of what used to be the shared holiday of Victory Day, when Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. But…
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Russia severs natural gas supplies for two NATO nations, escalating standoff with the West
More than two months into Russia’s war in Ukraine Vladimir Putin on Wednesday trained his sights on Europe’s reliance on Russian energy. Moscow cut off supplies of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, two of the many European countries that…
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