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...But neither idea was practical after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine....
...Then Ukrainians might even go back to reading Eugene Onegin with pleasure....
...The UK has removed sanctions against Russia-born tycoon Oleg Tinkov, the most outspoken billionaire to criticise Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
...And Vladimir Putin, like all other leaders, will pass on....
...The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan (Allen Lane)One of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East is vividly recreated in this...
...The sanctions on Eugene Tenenbaum and David Davidovich bring the total number of oligarchs, family members and associates with ties to Russia on the UK list to 106 since February, the government said on...
...Other individuals targeted in the latest round of sanctions included oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler and founder of Tinkoff bank Oleg Tinkov....
...It was not much more than a week ago that it appeared Vladimir Putin once again had the west cornered....
...has lifted the veil of secrecy he maintains over his wealth, even after the UK and EU imposed sanctions on him following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for his allegedly close relationship with President Vladimir...
...State media in Russia have gone into overdrive to dismiss claims that its forces have committed war crimes across Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion in February....
...Each face is, in its small way, a defiance of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s effort to erase the idea of an independent Ukrainian culture and identity distinct from that of Russia....
...In recent days US officials have shared corroborating information suggesting Russian president Vladimir Putin has been misled over the scale of his military’s failures....
...Being of Asian origin I was frequently asked by the Moscow police to produce my ID but they abruptly stopped it when I complained in writing to Vladimir Putin....
...Vladimir Putin warned Europe not to interfere in Belarus, as EU leaders queued up to urge the Russian leader to help steer the former Soviet republic out of its political crisis....
...There are other apparent fissures in a relationship that presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have repeatedly praised as the best ever....
...His perceptions are as applicable to the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin as to those introduced by Peter the Great. These splits follow a similar pattern....
...With men and their behaviour the subject of consistent controversy, from #MeToo, revenge porn and incel communities to the ascendance of strongman leaders such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip...
...An example is his version of the first lines of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: My uncle is a man of honour....
...On Wednesday, he was the personal guest of Vladimir Putin, Russian president, in Moscow. But Mr Netanyahu’s greatest triumph has been the seduction of Mr Trump, said a senior Israeli official....
...Certainly, this is what President Vladimir Putin wants us to believe....
...Here’s a graphic tracking the tangled web between Mr Trump and Vladimir Putin....
...Eugene Kaspersky, the company founder, was interviewed by FBI agents seeking to identify any links between the company and the Russian intelligence service known as FSB....
...Europe now feels squeezed by Vladimir Putin and abandoned by Donald Trump....
...Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin reads mostly as Nabokov’s, with made-up words and strange locutions that happily jolt the reader with their freshness....
...Ten years ago Vladimir Putin angrily declared that the post-cold war order was a sham....
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