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Trump's call with Putin is big win for Kremlin
Global Stage Interviews

Trump's call with Putin is big win for Kremlin

“We cannot afford to be reactive,” said Alina Polyakova, President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), responding to the news of President Trump’s recent call with Vladimir Putin.

Putin's New Year's wishes, again and again!
Puppet Regime

Putin's New Year's wishes, again and again!

This is the twenty-fifth time that Vladimir Putin has greeted the new year as ruler of Russia. To mark the occasion, he takes a look back at just how far he has come. Do you remember what was on the billboard charts when he first took power? #PUPPETREGIME

Putin's Home Shopping Nyetwork
Puppet Regime

Putin's Home Shopping Nyetwork

As Ukraine continues to get aid from the US and EU, Russia's president Vladimir Putin is adopting some Trumpian tactics to bring in more cash of his own. #PUPPETREGIME

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Who does China and Russia want to win the US election, Biden or Trump?

America’s biggest adversaries, Russia and China, are hoping for a Trump win in the 2024 US election, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

Prigozhin presumed dead
Quick Take

Prigozhin presumed dead

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Yevgeny Prigozhin, former head of Wagner Group and would-be putschist against Vladimir Putin's Kremlin and Russia, is no more.

​The Georgian flag flies next to a destroyed building at a military base in Gori, Georgia, on Sept. 16, 2008.
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Russia invaded Georgia too, and it never left

Georgia marks the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Russo-Georgian war this month. In 2008, a conflict between Russian-backed separatist forces in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia and Georgian troops sparked a Russian invasion of the South Caucasus country. To this day, 20% of Georgia remains occupied by pro-Russian forces.

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Aug. 11, 2023.
Asia

Fly me to the moon – or maybe not

Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years made contact of the wrong kind this weekend when its Luna-25 spaceship crash-landed on the surface of the moon. According to the Russian space program Roscosmos, the craft, also called the Luna-Glob-Lander, “switched to an off-design orbit” before it met its demise.

​Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during the Naval Parade marking Navy Day.
Europe

War and peace on Putin’s mind

Three Ukrainian drone strikes lit up the night sky in Moscow this weekend, damaging office towers and causing a brief closure of the city’s Vnukovo International Airport. The Russian defense ministry labeled it an “attempted terrorist attack” and reported that one Ukrainian UAV was destroyed and that two more were “suppressed” by electronic warfare. No injuries were reported.

Putin's New Show: Everything is Going According to Plan!
Puppet Regime

Putin's New Show: Everything is Going According to Plan!

Russia's president travels time to explain why various historic disasters weren't actually disasters at all. Explosion of the Hindenburg? Crucifixion of Jesus? Fyre Festival? Everything was going according to plan!