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FILE - In this Sunday, June 10, 2018 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province. Xi is traveling to Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, on Tuesday Sept. 11, and Wednesday Sept. 12, 2018, for an economic conference where he’s expected to meet with Putin, while China joins vast Russian war games for the first time. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US policy drives Russia, China together ahead of summit

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Protesters shout slogans during a rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. Opponents of a Russian government move to increase the age for collecting state retirement pensions are holding protests throughout the country and scattered arrests have been reported.The protests on Sunday were called by Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption activist who is President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

People across Russia rally against raising pension age

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Protesters shout slogans during a rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. Opponents of a Russian government move to increase the age for collecting state retirement pensions are holding protests throughout the country and scattered arrests have been reported.The protests on Sunday were called by Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption activist who is President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin foe, calls for Russia protests against raising pension age

By Nataliya Vasilyeva and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

In this April 4, 2018, file photo, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lock hands during a group photo in Ankara, Turkey. When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions have an interest in working together, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground. (Tolga Bozoglu/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Syria says it’s committed to ‘liberate’ Idlib

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FILE - in this file photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, a woman holds a poster showing the raise in the pension ages from 60 to 65 for men and to 63 for women, up from 55 during a rally protesting retirement age hikes in front of the Russian State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia. The hike in the retirement age was long overdue in Russia. The country's ageing population and a shrinking workforce means that the government spends more and more on pensions every year. This year alone, Russia is earmarking 3.3 trillion rubles ($48 billion) on old-age pension, which is even higher than Russia's defense spending. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian pension reform hits vulnerable age group of over-50s

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

China’s Xi plans to meet Putin on visit to Russian port city

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Code of Putinism’ by Brian D. Taylor

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

Russian President Vladimir Putin makes an address on the state TV in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. Putin in a televised address Wednesday said without raising the retirement age Russia's pension system &quot;would crack and eventually collapse.&quot; He offered concessions to the reform, saying that women's retirement age should increase from 55 to 60 years, lower than had proposed. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian state TV channel airs new program devoted to Putin

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People attend the Communist Party rally protesting retirement age hikes in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Several thousand people gathered in central Moscow on Sunday for a protest organized by the Communist Party and other demonstrations were reported in Vladivostok in the Far East and Barnaul and Novosibirsk in Siberia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russians rally to stop increase of pension eligibility age

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting in Washington. Lawyers for George Papadopoulos are seeking probation, saying the foreign policy adviser misled agents during a January 2017 interview not to harm an investigation but rather to &quot;save his professional aspirations and preserve a perhaps misguided loyalty to his master.&quot; Papadopoulos is a pivotal figure in special counsel Mueller's investigation as the first Trump campaign aide to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Papadopoulos: Trump ‘nodded’ at suggestion of Putin meeting

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with local officials in Omsk, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Outcry over retirement age plan brings rare Putin concession

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 and released by Kremlin press service on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin rests during a mini-break in the Siberian Tyva region, Russia. Putin's spokesman said on Monday that the Russian president spent the weekend in Russia's far-flung Tuva region in the company of the defense minister and the chief of the domestic intelligence. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin keeps his shirt on, hikes in Siberia to relax

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert in eastern Mus province, eastern Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. Turkish Seljuks beat the Byzantine forces at the Battle of Manzikert (now Malazgirt, Turkey) in 1071, gaining entry into Anatolia and opening the road to Europe. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

In familiar dance, Turkey warms to Russia as US ties unravel

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's meeting this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin — their second since May — should not be construed as bowing to Moscow's will, despite a determination by both sides to continue with the energy project, analysts say. (Associated Press/File)

Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline tightens complex ties

By Austin Davis - Special to The Washington Times

Four Acts: John McCain proved his duty to country time and again. As a Navy lieutenant commander (top inset), he was tortured for years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He and fellow war veteran John F. Kerry (center inset) lost their presidential bids to draft avoiders. The candidate celebrated a New Hampshire primary win in 2000 with his wife, Cindy. (Associated Press photographs)

John McCain, American hero, leaves unmatched legacy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses while speaking to the GOPAC Fall Charter Meeting in Washington. McCain's family said in a statement on Aug. 24, 2018, the Arizona senator has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. The 81-year-old McCain has been away from the Capitol since December. McCain's face bears a scar from skin cancer surgery in 2000. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

John McCain has died of brain cancer, Vietnam War hero and senator was 81

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a laying ceremony in Kursk, 426 kilometers (266 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. Putin attended a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Kursk in which the Soviet army routed Nazi troops. It is described by historians as the largest tank battle in history involving thousands of tanks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Russia’s Putin visits site of decisive WWII battle in Kursk

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Illustration on our giving Putin a tool to use against Trump and our Constitution by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How Putin could create a U.S. constitutional crisis and destroy Trump

By Paul Gregory

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Putin and his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto will discuss bilateral relations and pressing international issues. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Putin says latest US sanctions senseless

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 18, 2018 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend news conference after their meeting at Putin's residence in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. Merkel and Putin will meet on Saturday in the German government's guesthouse Meseberg, north of Berlin, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. The topics will include the civil war in Syria, the conflict in Ukraine, and energy questions. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Putin dances at Austrian wedding; talks with Merkel on Syria

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press