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Viktoria Ktsoyeva, an injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school, holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

L. TODD WOOD: Thoughts of jihad, Chechen war keep Russia up all night

By L. Todd Wood

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, listens to the President of France Francois Hollande after a statement for the media prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

G-7 summit nears, but German hosts have other worries

By Nathaniel Madden - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Security Council in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 29, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday to make losses of Russian troops who are on "special operations" in peacetime, a state secret. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

L. TODD WOOD: Give up your seat for pregnant women, please

By L. Todd Wood

An armored vehicle rides during an exercise this week at the Kuzminsky military training ground outside the village of Chkalovo near the Russian-Ukrainian border. (AP)

U.S. slams Russian push to classify military casualties as Ukraine coverup

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Joseph Biden: Ending Ukraine war a key test for U.S., Europe

The Washington Times

A Russia-backed rebel take aim on the outskirts of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The situation in eastern Ukraine has remained tense and skirmishes between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists have continued. Vice President Joseph R. Biden said that ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict is a key test of U.S. and European leadership. (Associated Press photographs)

Joseph Biden: Ending Ukraine war a key test for U.S., Europe

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to downplay the effects of U.S. and European sanctions on his country's economy, asserting that Russia has managed to survive the economic assault from the West. (Associated Press)

Russia recovery talk premature as sanctions threaten to cripple economy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a concert marking the 80th birthday anniversary of Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, in Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

L. TODD WOOD: Russia still angry about Serbia

By L. Todd Wood

President Barack Obama waves as he departs Westchester County Airport in Harrison, N.Y., Wednesday, May 20, 2015, following a trip to New York and Connecticut where he delivered the commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

EDITORIAL: Would Obama repeat his mistakes?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

Russian ruble rebounds to highest point against U.S. dollar since 2013

By Nate Madden - The Washington Times

Chechen Kheda Goilabiyeva, second right, stands after her wedding with Chechen police officer Nazhud Guchigov, in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia, Saturday, May 16, 2015. A 46-year-old Chechen police officer taking a 17-year-old as his second wife in flagrant violation of Russian laws has caused a storm in the Russian media and put the region's ruler on the defensive. (AP Photo, File)

Vladimir Putin put in a bind over Chechen wedding scandal, leader’s defiance

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Gen. George S. Patton Jr., left, commander of the U.S. 15th Army, and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. H.R. Gay, right, are pictured in an undated photo. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

L: TODD WOOD: If you want to arm Ukraine, arm it with economic progress

By L. Todd Wood

Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army navy stand guard as the Dixmude, the third French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, arrives at Wusong military dockyard, in Shanghai on May 9, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Inside China: French flotilla in Shanghai fuels talk of deal with China

By Miles Yu

A Russian air force Mi-26 helicopter, front, flies over Red Square during the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Host photo agency/RIA Novosti Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Russia aggression prompts Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania to seek NATO force

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf at the Presidential Palace, in Dijbouti in this May 6, 2015, file photo. The State Department says Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Russia this week for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

John Kerry set to make first trip to Russia since Ukraine crisis

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Secretary of State John F. Kerry hopes to keep the Ukraine situation separate from his push for a new dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Syria, U.S. officials said Monday. (Associated Press)

John Kerry to push Vladimir Putin for help in Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Vladimir Putin blasts U.S. ‘attempts to create a unipolar world’ during Victory Day speech

Associated Press

President Barack Obama, left, toasts with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Nov. 12 at a lunch banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China has become one of the world's largest two economies, and is wealthy enough to buy up at least $1.3 trillion of the U.S. debt. But that hasn't stopped Uncle Sam from continuing to send foreign aid to Beijing. (Associated Press)

Diplomatic diss to Obama: Russia, China step up ties with new investment bank

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with members of the Night Wolves biker group in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, July 12, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Night Wolves, pro-Putin bikers, win German court’s approval; entry ban overturned

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are said to have a budding "bromance." Their nations plan joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean and cooperation in China's proposed development bank. (Associated Press)

New Russia-China alliance latest diplomatic, strategic blow to Obama

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times