Vladimir Putin 
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3/7/2021
The Return of Human Rights on the American Agenda?
by Richard Moe
One of Jimmy Carter's legacies, albeit erratically observed, has been the assertion of human rights as a foreign policy priority. After four years of ignoring the issue, will the US under Joe Biden reclaim leadership in high-stakes relationships with Russia and Saudi Arabia?
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/27/2020
He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail.
Yuri Dmitriev's family believes he has been jailed on false pedophelia charges because his findings challenge a sanitized version of history favored by Russian nationalists.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
4/21/2020
Republican-Led Senate Panel Confirms That Russia Backed Trump in 2016
The intelligence committee refutes the president’s unfounded claims by giving an Obama-era report its seal of approval.
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3/1/2020
“He Could Get Squishy on Democracy”: Bill Clinton’s Perception of Vladimir Putin According to Recently Public Documents
by Stephan Kieninger
Newly available Clinton Presidential Library files give readers novel insights and fascinating impressions of Putin’s KGB heritage, his manners, his style, his shrewdness and his ways of manipulation.
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SOURCE: Aeon
3-7-17
The new authoritarians
by Holly Case
Last century’s dictators wanted to reinvent their subjects as "new men." This century’s strongmen just don’t care. Why?
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4-12-15
Vladimir Putin: History Man?
by Walter G. Moss
Putin is far from unique among politicians in attempting to manipulate history. But a true “history man” is primarily a truth-seeker. He fails in this.
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SOURCE: TIME Magazine
3-25-14
Putin reviving a Stalinist fitness program to whip Russians into shape
Putin is reviving the program "Ready for Labor and Defense" with leftover cash from the Sochi games.
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3-24-14
Enough With the Hitler Analogies
by Christian Karner
Our understanding of World War II has been deeply enriched by a memory boom of books and research. The same cannot be said by the Hitler analogy boom.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-20-14
Cold Man in the Kremlin
by Roger Cohen
When Putin described the breakup of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century, he meant it.
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SOURCE: Atlantic
3-20-14
Good News From Ukraine: Everyone Still Hates Hitler
by Matt Ford
All sides in the Crimean crisis are invoking the Third Reich. Why?
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3-24-14
Putin Didn't Seize Crimea Because Obama is "Weak"
by Sheldon M. Stern
Putin seized Crimea because of Russia's national interests -- and pundits are making fools of themselves when they argue otherwise.
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3-12-14
The Double Standards of Crimean Cold-War Diplomacy
by Cynthia V. Hooper
Though Russia's case against the new Ukrainian government is self-serving and full of holes, the toppling of Yanukovych was not a simple story of democracy vs. tyranny.
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SOURCE: Jewish Daily Forward
3-11-14
Why Vladimir Putin Will Keep Playing Jewish Card in Ukraine Crisis
by David E. Fishman
Keeping the West off balance is an end unto itself for Vladimir Putin.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-10-14
Putin’s Phantom Pogroms
by Amelia M. Glaser
Russia is playing games with Jewish collective memory.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-12-14
Why Russians Back Putin on Ukraine
by Boris Kolonitskii
Few in Russia are very supportive of revolution anymore.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2-23-14
Stalin’s Presence Is Still Felt in Host City
A champion of collectivism, Stalin undoubtedly would have frowned upon the renting of his summer home to a corporation.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2-3-14
Don’t Let Putin Grab Ukraine
by Timothy Snyder
If the present crisis ends with the fragmentation of the Ukrainian state, the result will be disastrous for all concerned, including Russia.
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SOURCE: Moscow Times
1-16-14
Putin Says State History Textbooks Will Not Impose Ideology
Some analysts have accused the Kremlin of using the new textbooks to promote its ideological agenda and crack down on academic freedom.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11-25-13
Putin’s Dead Poets Society
by Masha Gessen
What happens when a Russian autocrat appropriates a rich cultural heritage?
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11-4-13
Is the Arab World Shifting to Russia?
by Juan Cole
In the 1960s, America competed with the Soviet Union for influence in the Arab world. Is it back to the future for diplomacy in the Middle East?
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