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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama thaws Cuba, but Vladimir Putin still Cold War KGB

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (behind) and Cuba's President Raul Castro attend a ceremony at the Mausoleum of the Soviet Internationalist Soldier in Havana in July during Mr. Putin's Latin American tour aimed at boosting trade and ties in the region. (Associated Press)

Cuba move comes as Russia tries to revive ties to Havana

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Signs advertising currencies light next to the exchange office in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. After a massive overnight rate hike by Russia's Central Bank, the ruble staged a two-hour rally Tuesday morning before rolling back to new historic lows. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian government strike fails to halt ruble’s slide

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. The surprise Central Bank decision to raise the rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent came in the early hours on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to prop up the troubled currency. It&#8217;s the biggest interest rate hike since 1998, the year when Russia defaulted on its sovereign bonds. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Russia central bank hikes interest rates to save ruble

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian President Pranab Mukherjee meet in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Facing a stumbling economy at home and increasingly biting Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Thursday to strengthen once-close relationship with India through an ambitious plan to help New Delhi build at least 12 new nuclear reactors. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin turns to India to clinch new deals

By Nirmala George - Associated Press

Obama says Putin not holding ‘good cards’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes President of Russia Vladimir Putin, left, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, June 1, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Angela Merkel on Vladimir Putin: He acts the way he does to ‘prove he’s a man’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin opens a meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin hopes to expand ties with India

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Illustration on political economic corruption in Ukraine by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RICHARD RAHN: Ukraine facing bankruptcy

By Richard W. Rahn

(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

KIM HOLMES: With Putin’s hand getting weaker, time to watch out

By Kim R. Holmes - The Washington Times

A publishing house building is seen in flames in the center of Grozny, Russia, early Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. A gun battle broke out after midnight Thursday in the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, puncturing the patina of stability ensured by years of heavy-handed rule by a Kremlin-appointed leader. Security officials and the leader of Chechnya said gunmen traveling in several cars killed at least three traffic police officers at a checkpoint late at night in the capital of the republic, Grozny. The Moscow-based National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a statement that after the attack on the traffic police, gunmen occupied a publishing house in the center of Grozny. It said security services, police and emergency services personnel surrounded the building. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

Russia and Chechnya battle, leave 9 dead in Grozny

By Musa Sadulayev - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2014 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai, China. Angry with the West's response over Ukraine, Russia is moving rapidly to bolster ties with North Korea in a diplomatic nose-thumbing that could complicate the U.S.-led effort to squeeze Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear weapons program. Russia's proactive strategy in Asia- which also involves cozying up to China and had been dubbed &quot;Putin's Pivot&quot; - began years ago as Moscow's answer to Washington's much touted rebalancing of its military forces in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Mark Ralston, Pool, File)

JAMES LYONS AND RICHARD FISHER: China, Russia build military alliance as U.S. strategy weakens

By James A. Lyons Jr. and Richard D. Fisher Jr.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. Russian President Putin has defended the Kremlin's aggressive foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his country's survival. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Putin’s push to reinstate Soviet power will grow, ex-CIA chief says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People walk past a display with currency exchange rates at Kievskaya (Kiev's) railway station in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Poor and middle-class Russians are increasingly challenging government insistence that a 40 percent drop in the value of the ruble _ now worth a record low of 54 to the dollar _ will affect mainly the rich. Russia&#8217;s economy has been battered this year by uncertainty over the conflict in Ukraine, the falling price of oil, Western sanctions and retaliatory Russian import bans which have poor and middle-class Russians feeling the pinch. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard

By Laura Mills - Associated Press

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, right, celebrates with Arseniy Yatsenyuk after Yatsenyuk was appointed as Prime Minister during the opening first session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. Parliament in Ukraine has opened for its first session since an election last month that ushered in a spate of pro-Western parties. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool)

Ukraine gets loan to modernize gas pipelines

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Military honour guard stand outside the main building of the new Presidential Palace complex after a welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Putin arrived in Turkey for a one-day visit and met with Erdogan at his huge new palace on once-protected farm land and forest in Ankara, becoming the second foreign dignitary after the Pope Francis to be hosted at the lavish, 1000-room complex.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Putin says Russia will scrap South Stream pipeline

By Suzan Fraser and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, Russia's then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin locks a collar with a satellite tracker on the tranquilized five-year-old Ussuri tiger in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East as he took a part in the national program for preserving the population of the Ussuri tiger conducted by researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin is keeping farmers in northeastern China on edge. China&#8217;s official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, that the animal, named Ustin, bit and killed 15 goats and left another three missing on Sunday and Monday on a farm in Heilongjiang province's Fuyuan county. (AP Photo / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool File)

Vladimir Putin’s tiger ravages goat farm in northeast China

Associated Press

World Taekwondo Federation President Choue Chung-won (left) gives an honorary taekwondo black belt and uniform to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Vladimir Putin earns 8th-degree black belt in karate

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former Russia spy Anna Chapman demonstrates close-quarters combat in a propaganda video. (Image: YouTube, Anna Chapman)

Anna Chapman, ex-Russia spy, takes shot at U.S. Army in Putin propaganda video

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. The meeting discussed a strategy for fighting extremism. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Ben Carson: Obama ‘is very much like Putin’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times