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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

Rosneft opened a field of super-light oil in the Kara Sea, where the deposits reportedly exceed 750 million barrels. Its partnership with Exxon Mobil Corp., however, is put on hold because of U.S. sanctions against Russia over its military aggression in Ukraine. (Rosneft Press Service via Associated Press)

U.S. sanctions against Russia stymie Western oil companies’ Arctic aspirations

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Muhsin al-Fadhli. (Image: U.S. State Department)

Inside the Ring: Death of a terrorist?

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin inspects the nation's Black Sea fleet at the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 9, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Russia’s Black Sea build-up: 80 new warships expected by 2020

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe, with Russian territory colored pink, seemingly including Crimea, presented to him as a gift during his meeting with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, Russia, in this August 2014 file photo. As world leaders gather at the U.N., during the week of Sept. 22, 2014, the U.S. and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran. That’s likely just fine with Putin, since these issues distract from Russia’s presence in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Presidential Press Service, Mikhail Klimentyev, Pool, File)

Russia wants to keep Ukraine off U.N. radar

By Steven R. Hurst - 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

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Putin says he could have troops inside Poland ‘in two days’: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. In a major reversal, Obama ordered the United States into a broad military campaign to &#8220;degrade and ultimately destroy&#8221; militants in two volatile Middle East nations, authorizing airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, as well as an expansion of strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool) **FILE**

O’DONNELL: Russia is the phantom foe in Syria

By Christine O’Donnell

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate has abandoned a sweeping Senate bill he helped write. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Marco Rubio calls for more muscular foreign policy

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, as Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov listens Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Putin takes part in the two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which brings together Russia, China and four former Soviet republics in Central Asia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klementyev, Presidential Press Service)

Ukrainian Prime Minister: Putin’s goal ‘is to take the entire Ukraine’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Putin: Russia’s large-scale weapons purchases will continue for the next decade

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

$Breitling Energy CEO Chris Faulkner downplays the dangers of fracking brought forth by environmentalists. (Lloyd Villas/The Washington Times)$

U.S. oil surplus eases prices in global crises

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's fantasist view of civilization's future by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

OVERBECK: Obama’s misplaced hope in march of history abroad

By Joy Overbeck

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

FEIN: National borders are not inviolate

By Bruce Fein

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

Illustration on defense and deterrence by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

HANSON: Why the democracies can never relax

By Victor Davis Hanson

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves after a wreath laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. As the Ukraine crisis intensifies, the NATO countries closest to Russia have been pushing the alliance to set up permanent bases with troops on their land _ with historical fears of Moscow heightened by new Russian aggression. But as the alliance holds a summit this week where the Polish and Baltic request will be discussed, it&#8217;s looking increasingly unlikely they will get that. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

LAMBRO: Speaking softly and carrying no stick

By Donald Lambro

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves to people in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, Siberia, Russia on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin says peace deal looms, depending on Ukraine’s nod

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Mongolia's President Elbegdorj Tsakhia during their meeting at the State Palace in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Obama: Russia ‘reaching back to the days of the czars’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times