Vladimir Putin

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His rock-star status among world leaders, at a time when America's reputation is in tatters, shows the former president is a major asset to Barack Obama.
  • Obama undercuts Iran

    With nuclear fears growing, the president's shrewd moves are winning Russian support for boxing in Iran
  • Putin's dangerous power politics

    As the Russian prime minister escalates a "hot war" in the Caucasus, will Europe and the U.S. intervene?
  • John McCain's tough stance toward Russia

    John McCain and his national security advisor both want to get tough with Russia -- but one of them got paid to say so. Does McCain have another lobbyist problem?
  • A Lynchian nightmare, a hooker grandma and more

    A man who never sleeps, Marianne Faithfull turning tricks and a poisoned Russian spy headline this week's indie releases.
  • Seizing American supremacy

    Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception.
  • The one that got away

    The fish Putin caught; the agreement Bush didn't get.
  • Bush's European disaster

    The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
  • At least he didn't choke on a pretzel

    The White House backpedals on the president's illness.
  • Who poisoned the KGB agent?

    Only a state with a highly sophisticated nuclear program could kill a person with a radioactive toxin.
  • Oh, that crazy Vladimir

    As the fallout from "Rathergate" continues, two CBS staffers resign -- and Russia's leader suggests that George Bush is to blame.
  • Right Hook

    Fox News' Sean Hannity rips U.N. official over tsunami relief comment, wants him fired. Too bad his facts are wrong. And: Why is a right-winger singing from the same choir as Michael Moore?
  • Vlad the terrible

    Two years ago Russia's Vladimir Putin was a celebrated champion of democracy. Now he's being called "the Mussolini of Moscow."
  • At the U.N., it's all about the money

    High ideals? Lofty rhetoric? As the Security Council debates the Bush campaign against Iraq, billions of dollars in oil and old debt are the hidden agenda.
  • Will Russia protect Iraq from the U.S.?

    As Bush and Putin cozy up at the Crawford ranch, Russia is still blocking American moves against Saddam Hussein, because of billions to be made doing business with him.
  • The Central Asian chess game

    If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
  • Soul brothers

    Journalists jeered, but President Bush was right when he made nice with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent talks tough, but he can't afford to fight missile defense.
  • "Nothing human left"

    A journalist who disguised herself as a Chechen woman talks about the atrocities of the war, the cowardice of Western journalists and the dim hopes for peace.
  • Would you buy a used car from Colby?

    "Survivor" runner-up wants to sell you his Pontiac; Ryan and Crowe: "Too much, too soon." Plus: Jack Nicholson takes tea with Vladimir Putin. Putin?
  • The end of the affair

    Russia's support for the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic reflects a desire to cut its losses, not a pro-Western change of heart.
  • Playing the "dum-dum" card

    Tired of having their man labeled a liar, the Gore campaign asks why Bush can't "string together a coherent sentence."
  • Mikhail Gorbachev explains what's rotten in Russia

    In a rare interview, the former Soviet leader says glasnost is working, but globalization isn't.
  • Russians blast Putin as sub deaths are revealed

    The botched, belated rescue mission rivets attention on the dismal state of the Russian military and the government's lingering love of secrecy.
  • Guilty as charged

    Russian oligarchs are being harassed and jailed in a crackdown that's raising eyebrows in the West. But most Russians thinks they're guilty -- just like everybody else.
  • Putin's puppet prostitutes

    Russia's president wants to censor a TV show that portrays him as a playboy.
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