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...The west must take “into account” Russian president Vladimir Putin’s security concerns and stop the slide towards a Versailles-style victors’ peace in Ukraine, said Brazil’s top foreign policy adviser....
...It must have been music to Vladimir Putin’s ears....
...Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat and now vice-president of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing think-tank, said Russia and North Korea were “both sovereign countries”....
...Russia exacts terrible victor’s justice on Ukrainians. This isn’t speculation....
...Last year he co-authored a book, Vladimir Putin: The Accusation, in which he made the case that the Russian leader should be held accountable for atrocities in Ukraine....
...No one could pretend that either Tokyo or Nuremberg were other than victors’ justice, and the British, French and Dutch empires were (for that moment at least) among the victors....
...Victor GilinskySanta Monica, CA, US...
...“A Russia-North Korea axis complicates the security picture both in Ukraine and on the Korean peninsula,” wrote Victor Cha and Ellen Kim at CSIS, a Washington-based think-tank....
...Today, in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin dreams of regaining the territories including of course Ukraine that Tsar Nicholas and his ancestors once ruled....
...If Trump is the victor, or a Republican nominee with Trumpian views, then Putin will have a golden opportunity to tilt the bloody playing field his way....
...It takes Rushdie, a courageous survivor and witness himself, to remind us that “words are the only victors”....
...As I watched from the back, wrapped in my thick, navy City of London coat and scarf, I remember thinking his reception was fit for a rock star — or a victor — rather than for a candidate who had finished...
...“No one should really expect that China should cut off its access to Russian oil and gas,” said Victor Gao, vice-president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization....
...Victor Gilinsky Santa Monica, CA, US...
...Letter in response to this editorial: Attacking dams is banned under Geneva Conventions / From Victor Gilinsky, Santa Monica, CA, US...
...Macron has had numerous conversations with Putin and Zelenskyy to try to avert and then to end the war....
...Russian president Vladimir Putin and France’s Emmanuel Macron have agreed on the need for an urgent fact-finding mission by the international nuclear watchdog to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine...
...The credit for that should go to Vladimir Putin....
...Exclusive: The west must “take account” of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s security concerns and stop the slide towards a Versailles-style victors’ peace in Ukraine, said Brazil’s top foreign policy adviser...
...As was the shopping mall (Victor Gruen). And corporate management theory (Peter Drucker). Not to mention the later sexual awakening of western youth (thank you, Wilhelm Reich)....
...Unlike other oil majors such as Shell, BP and Equinor that announced their exit from Russia soon after Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the French group has resisted pressure to...
...Le Pen, who was previously sympathetic to Vladimir Putin and benefited from a Russian bank loan to her party, has condemned the invasion of Ukraine and acknowledged Russian war crimes, but she has also opposed...
...The French president has been accused by some European allies of being too accommodating to Putin by saying Russia must not be “humiliated”....
...A Russian aircraft has struck an unmanned US drone over the Black Sea, American officials claim, in an incident they describe as a “reckless” action by Vladimir Putin’s military....
...“I would be absolutely amazed if Putin goes in person . . . He’s a pariah figure,” he added....
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