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Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrives to Milan's International fair for the second day of a ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Russian leader Vladimir Putin was meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and key Western leaders in an attempt to negotiate a full end to hostilities in Ukraine that could ease sanctions against Russia.(AP Photo/Felice Calabro')

Vladimir Putin rides wave of patriotism despite Russia’s economic woes

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

Alexander Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic', centre, surrounded by pro-Russian rebels, walks in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Putin orders troops away from Ukraine border

By LAURA MILLS - Associated Press

Valentina Matviyenko (left), the speaker of Russia's Senate, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a State Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Inside China: She said, Xi said

By Miles Yu

In this March 4, 2014 file photo, a monument to Ukrainian poet and writer Taras Shevchenko is silhouetted against an apartment building with a sign advertising Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom, in Moscow, Russia. A senior administration official said Tuesday that Russia's largest banks could be the next targets of sweeping sanctions if Moscow further invades Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Russia, Ukraine in talks on gas as winter looms

Associated Press

Illustration on U.S. China relations by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

SCHOEN & KAYLAN: Russia and China, masters of mischief

By Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan

Despite popular support for a visa regime with former Soviet republics, Russian President Vladimir Putin has opposed such a move, saying "A visa regime would mean that we are pushing former Soviet republics away, but we need to bring them closer." (Associated Press)

Immigration surge brings economic benefits, tension to Russia

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on Russia's incursion into Ukraine by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency

PIRCHNER: Russia’s costly Ukrainian conquest

By Herman Pirchner Jr.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. A day ahead of a NATO summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued his own peace plan for eastern Ukraine, calling on the Russian-backed insurgents there to "stop advancing" and urging Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the region. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Former Soviet Bloc nations fear Vladimir Putin assembling new USSR

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 6th Armored Division carry the Chinese type 97 semiautomatic machine guns at their military base on the outskirts of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Inside China: A Shanghaied Exercise

By Miles Yu

President Obama traveled last year to Estonia, where he tried to reassure NATO members of the alliance's promise to defend against Russian aggression under President Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press)

Obama travels to Estonia to reassure nervous Baltic leaders

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rockets propelled by RD-180 engines transport U.S. national security satellites to space. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. military dependence on Russian rocket engines raises security concerns

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

FILE In this file photo taken on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media during his and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after their talks in Moscow, Russia . Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged those holding a new round of talks Monday on easing Ukraine’s crisis to push for a cease-fire between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Pro-Russian rebels lower demands in peace talks

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

President Obama will leave Washington on Tuesday for Estonia, the tiny Baltic country bordering Russia that left the Soviet Union and joined the 28-nation military bloc in 2004. (Associated Press)

Obama seeks to reassure jittery NATO members after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin heads the Cabinet meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Europe looks for new sanctions to impose on Russia over Ukraine crisis

Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) northwest of Moscow, in Tver region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: ‘I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A camouflaged pro-Russian tank seen in the town of Novoazovsk, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pro-Russia separatists take firm control of coastal town of Novoazovsk

Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama confesses: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Tourists rest on the Black Sea beach in Yalta, Crimea. Last year the peninsula saw 5.9 million tourists. This summer only about 300,000 visited. (Associated Press)

Tourism suffers in Crimea as Ukraine shuns breakaway region

By Olga Rudenko — Special to The Washington Times

Ukrainian border guards look at the first aid truck as it passes the border post at Izvaryne, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday, seemingly without Kiev's approval, after more than a week's delay amid suspicions the mission was being used as a cover for an invasion by Moscow. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russian vehicles in Ukraine ‘a flagrant violation’: White House

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times