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Putin completes quarter century, polls show he’s still popular in Kremlin’s hot seat
Mickey Vernon
Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin — with little public exposure as deputy ...
Trump says he will speak to Putin soon
Mickey Vernon
US President Donald Trump has said that he would soon speak to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and help in ...
The Illicit flow of Technology to Russia goes through this Hong Kong address
Mickey Vernon
From a nondescript seventh-floor office at 135 Bonham Strand near Hong Kong’s financial district, at least four companies are operating ...
China’s economic forays in Central Asia gives rise to discomfiture in Moscow
Mickey Vernon
China’s economic forays into resource rich Central Asia, a region which shares deep historical, political and economic ties with Moscow, ...
How Western sanctions are strangling Vladimir Putin’s Arctic gas ambitions
Mickey Vernon
Russia’s fortress economy has proved remarkably resilient to an onslaught of Western sanctions. Two years after the Kremlin’s invasion of ...
