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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Putin's state-of-the-nation speech comes amid a new surge in tensions with the West over a Russian troop buildup near the border with Ukraine and a hunger strike by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny protesting a lack of adequate medical treatment in prison. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Putin vows a ‘quick and tough’ Russian response for its foes

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Putin's state-of-the-nation speech comes amid a new surge in tensions with the West over a Russian troop buildup near the border with Ukraine and a hunger strike by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny protesting a lack of adequate medical treatment in prison. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin threatens ‘harsh’ punishment if West crosses ‘red lines’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this June 3, 1961, photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy talk in the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in a suburb of Vienna. The meeting was part of a series of talks during their summit meetings in Vienna. Monday, May 29, 2017 marks the 100-year anniversary of Kennedy's birth. (AP Photo/File)

CROSSTALK: How to avoid WWIII

By Edward Lozansky

In this Thursday, April 1, 2021 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Human Rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Hit by a barrage of new sanctions from the Biden administration, the Kremlin is carefully weighing its response in a tense showdown with the United States. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Kremlin says U.S. has an ‘obsession’ with sanctions

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking

By ERIC TUCKER and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the Russian Geographical Society via video link in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Joe Biden expels diplomats, hits Russia with sanctions over cyberattacks, election interference

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The centre was set up as a line of communication with the whole of Russia for analysing and collecting information, promptly using big data and solving arising problems. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking

By ERIC TUCKER and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The centre was set up as a line of communication with the whole of Russia for analysing and collecting information, promptly using big data and solving arising problems. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Putin gets 2nd COVID-19 vaccine shot

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

A woman visits her home in the separatist-controlled territory to collect her belongings after a recent shelling near a frontline outside Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 9, 2021. Tensions have built up in recent weeks in the area of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, with violations of a cease-fire becoming increasingly frequent. (AP Photo)

Joe Biden urges Russia to ‘de-escalate tensions’ with Ukraine, proposes summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this June 5, 2019, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Putin and Xi have developed strong personal ties helping bolster a “strategic partnership” between the two former Communist rivals. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Leaders of Russia and China tighten their grips, grow closer

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing behind a glass of the cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) ** FILE **

Russia: Navalny on hunger strike to protest prison treatment

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Council for Interethnic Relations via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Leaders of Russia, France, Germany discuss global crises

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s corrupt state press corps would make Putin jealous

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Eight more years — lawmakers approve bill allowing Putin two more terms as president

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with government officials via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 22, 2021. Putin said he will get vaccinated against the coronavirus on Tuesday, months after widespread vaccination has started in Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin gets jab of COVID-19 vaccine — out of the public eye

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with government officials via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 22, 2021. Putin said he will get vaccinated against the coronavirus on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, months after widespread vaccination has started in Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin to get coronavirus vaccine shot in Russia on Tuesday

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok re-aired an unverified claim about two Republican senators relying on Kremlin disinformation on Twitter this month. (Associated Press)

Ex-FBI agent Strzok repeats false disinformation claims about Republican senators

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan applauds as he listens to Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a ceremony as they have remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor of Akkuyu power plant in Mersin province on the Mediterranean coast, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Erdogan called it a &quot;symbol of Turkish-Russian cooperation.&quot; (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey joins Russia in condemning Biden’s ‘killer’ comment

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on social and economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol, via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin: Putin’s offer of a call with Biden was to save ties

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 12, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US-Russia ties nosedive after Biden-Putin tit-for-tat

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press