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FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, congratulates the Moscow Helsinki Group Chair and human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva, during a ceremony to present the 2017 State Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Human Rights and and Charity Work in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia . Alexeyeva, who was forced into exile by Soviet authorities after founding Russia's oldest human rights organization in 1976, passed away in a Moscow hospital Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 at age 91. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s most famous human rights activist dies at 91

By JIM HEINTZ and MATTHEW BODNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 1989, file photo, then U.S. President George H.W. Bush stands on his car and waves to crowds in Tiananman Square in Beijing. Chinese state media are praising Bush as a &quot;statesman of vision,&quot; recalling the late president's role in helping end the Cold War and establishing policies toward China. The China Daily newspaper said Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, that Bush in the 1980s realized China was different from the Soviet Union and recognized the potential for cooperation. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

Chinese state media praise Bush as ‘statesman of vision’

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Alabama editorial roundup

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Philippine forces pressed their offensive to drive out militants linked to the Islamic State group after days of fighting left corpses in the streets and hundreds of civilians begging for rescue from a besieged southern city of Marawi last year. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS fighters in Philippines threaten U.S. anti-terror plan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Baltic countries want Walmart to remove Soviet-themed shirts

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by artist Rachel Stevens an old synagogue key discovered by Stevens at a market in Lviv, Ukraine, and a glass replica that she made modeled on it are photographed. Seventy-five of the glass replicas were presented to people working to preserve the memory of the Jews of Lviv and the region during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the city’s Jewish community in the Holocaust on Sunday Sept. 2, 2018. (Rachel Stevens via AP)

Correction: Ukraine-Holocaust Remembrance story

By VANESSA GERA and RANDY HERSCHAFT and YEVHENIY KRAVS - Associated Press

A British police officer guards a cordon which was extended overnight to include the Lush House car park adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Gardens park in Salisbury, England, Thursday, July 5, 2018. British officials ware seeking clues Thursday in the rush to understand how two Britons were exposed to the military-grade nerve agent Novichok. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

2nd Novichok poisoning worries residents near English city

By Matt Dunham and Gregory Katz - Associated Press

Berlin-Singapore nexus is unavoidable, and it inspires hope

By Carl M. Cannon

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Chernobyl’ by Sherhii Plokhy

By Joseph C. Goulden

Police officers position a screen outside the vehicle recovery business &quot;Ashley Wood Recovery&quot; in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison former-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia makes it &quot;highly likely&quot; that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Envoy denies Russia was behind attack on ex-spy

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Illustration: Russian bear by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

U.S. left fears Russia’s Christianity, whiteness, anti-feminism

By L. Todd Wood

Russian President Vladimir Putin applauds during an award ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, for Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in Syria. Putin said at Thursday's award ceremony that Wednesday's explosion at a supermarket in the country's second-largest city was a terrorist attack. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin credits KGB past with preparing him for Russian presidency

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Mikhail Lesin (right) served as a top press aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin until 2009. As his broadcast network RT expanded, he had a falling-out with Mr. Putin, one American intelligence source said, and he moved his family to California. (REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS SERVICE)

Mikhail Lesin’s death swung attention to Russia after Obama’s intelligence fiasco

By Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A visitor walks past a wall of Soviet political propaganda posters from around the time of the Civil war 1917-1922, on display at the Tate Modern in the Red Star Over Russia exhibition in London, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. The exhibition is to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, it offers a visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

100 years on, Tate Modern explores Russian revolutionary art

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Details of South Dakota nuclear-missile accident released

By SETH TUPPER - Associated Press

Illustration on the failure to "contain" Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Russia never contained by the U.S.

By Daniel Hoffman

Chart to accompany Rahn article of Oct. 17, 2017.

Economic freedom requires changes in the U.S.

By Richard W. Rahn

In this photo made on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 a photo of Sergei Korolyov, the father of the Soviet space program is on display at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, Russia. The launch of Sputnik 60 years ago opened the space era and became a major triumph for the Soviet Union, showcasing its military might and technological edge. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

The launch of Sputnik 60 years ago opened space era

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian Insecurity Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Vladimir Putin’s Russia can be explained by ‘Long Telegram’

By Thomas Mason

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 1956 file photo blood streams from the cut eye of Hungarian Ervin Zador injured during a fight with a member of the Soviet team in the closing stages of the Hungary vs. CSSR water polo match in Melbourne, Australia. Hungary faces old rival Russia for a place in the semifinals in men's water polo at the world championships. One previous match looms over the rest, the famous &quot;Blood in the Water&quot; duel against the Soviet Union at the 1956 Olympics, and memories are long in Budapest. (AP Photo/files)

Hungary’s proud water polo tradition goes on at home worlds

By CIARAN FAHEY - Associated Press