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$Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an annual meeting with top military officials in the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Putin said that Russia is the only country in the world that has hypersonic weapons even though its military spending is a fraction of the U.S. military budget. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)$

Putin says Russia is leading the world in hypersonic weapons

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

$Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, gestures while speaking during an annual meeting with top military officials in the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Putin said that Russia is the only country in the world that has hypersonic weapons even though its military spending is a fraction of the U.S. military budget. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, right, attend the meeting. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)$

Vladimir Putin: Russia hypersonic weapon development leads world

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 13, 1989 file photo, East German border guards stand in front of segments of the Berlin Wall, which were removed to open the wall at Potsdamer Platz passage in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)

Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Putin rejects blaming Stalin for start of World War II

Associated Press

FILE - Int his July 24, 2019 file photo, a Statue of the Republic covered in Russian gold and donated by President Vladimir Putin stands in the Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrives Thursday, Oct. 2, 109 in Cuba, long the principal ally in Latin America of the former Soviet Union, for a visit that some see as confirmation of a new closeness precisely at a time when the island is going through a new economic crisis and confronting new pressure from the United States. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP Explains: Why does Medvedev’s visit to Cuba matter?

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

Demonstrators link hands as they gather along an elevated walkway in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement created human chains on both sides of the city's harbor Friday, inspired by a historic protest 30 years ago in the Baltic states against Soviet control. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

What the Hong Kong protesters know

By David Keene

Lithuanian people take part in a traditional relay race Vilnius-Riga-Tallinn dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way at the Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday,Aug. 23, 2019. Estonia’s prime minister says one should never forget the 1989 “Baltic Way” in which nearly 2 million people of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia formed a human chain more than 600 kilometers (370 miles) long to protest Soviet occupation. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Baltics mark 30th anniversary of anti-Soviet human chain

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

Heroic Deeds Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Why the heroic deeds of the Soviet people must not be forgotten

By Nikolay Lakhonin

Non-aggression pact : A bad deal, 80 years ago illustration

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A bad deal, 80 years ago

By Victor Davis Hanson

In this photo taken on Oct. 7, 2018, people walk the street with the 18th century Trinity Church in the background in the village of Nyonoksa, northwestern Russia. The Aug. 8, 2019, explosion of a rocket engine at the Russian navy's testing range just outside Nyonoksa led to a brief spike in radiation levels and raised new questions about prospective Russian weapons. (AP Photo/Sergei Yakovlev)

Mysterious missile explosion in Russia raises questions

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Illustration on the Russian struggle against Nazi Germany in World War II by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Kremlin rewriting World War II history

By Herman Pirchner Jr.

This photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 shows a view of the restaurant inside Moscow's iconic Metropol Hotel in Moscow, Russia. The Metropol, across the street from the Bolshoi Theater and 500 meters from Red Square, became a favorite with world leaders and celebrities. In 2009, U.S. President Barak Obama also gave a speech at the hotel. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow’s Metropol: elegance to revolution and back again

By FRANCESCA EBEL - Associated Press

Lithuania convicts ex-USSR defense minister of war crimes

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

Illustration on the darkening situation in Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Marking Gorbachev’s unhappy birthday

By Konstantin Dobrynin

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, Tatyana Rybalchenko, who worked as a nurse during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1988, holds a photo of her taken in June 1986 in Kabul, Afghanistan, during her interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. As Russia this week marks the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, the memories of the war are still fresh for female nurses and clerks and shopkeepers, mostly young and single, who were thrust into the disastrous campaign that came to known as Russia's Vietnam. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Women recall the ‘hell’ of Soviet war in Afghanistan

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Feb. 15, 1989, people and relatives greet Soviet Army soldiers driving on their armored personnel carriers after crossing a bridge on the border between Afghanistan and then Soviet Uzbekistan near the Uzbek town of Termez, Uzbekistan. When the Soviet Union completed its troops withdrawal from Afghanistan on this day, it was widely hailed as a much-anticipated end to a bloody quagmire, but public perceptions have changed and many Russians now see the 10-year Soviet war in Afghanistan as a necessary and largely successful endeavor. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

30 years on, Russia views Afghan war with pride

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Roger Stone speaks at the American Priority Conference in Washington Thursday Dec. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Roger Stone calls Mueller a ‘rogue prosecutor’ and America the ‘new Soviet Union’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1979 file photograph, one of the hostages seized when Islamic radicals stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, blindfolded and with his hands bound, is displayed to a crowd in Tehran, Iran. This climactic event and others in 1979, which dominated television sets and newspaper front pages 40 years ago, helped shape the modern Middle East. (AP Photo, File)

AP Analysis: Climactic events in 1979 shaped modern Mideast

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Afghan comments inaccurate

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press