Former Russian foreign minister: “It is mind-boggling what Putin is doing in Ukraine”
Andrei Kozyrev explains Vladimir Putin’s cruel rationality and the calculus of the war in Ukraine.
ByVladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
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Russia cracks down on protesters across the country
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Could the government really seize oligarchs’ houses?
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Putin is running out of options
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Putin’s miscalculation in Ukraine could lead to his downfall
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There are limits to what the Russian president can get his people to believe in an interconnected world.
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The truth about Putin’s “denazification” fantasy
The Russian president is twisting history in an attempt to justify an unjustifiable war on Ukraine.
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The anti-war left should not be cowed
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Valiant Ukrainians put much of Europe to shame
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The fight for Ukraine is only beginning
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