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FILE - A Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008 file photo of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, opening an alpine ski center that will be used in the 2014 Olympics at Krasnaya Polyana in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The Russian president told Olympic historian David Miller in an exclusive interview made available on Friday May 5, 2017, that his country has plenty of candidates capable of hosting the Summer Games, not just Moscow. (Dmitry Astakhov/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin hints at Russian desire to bid for Summer Olympics

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

CBS "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert gave a vulgar monologue involving gay sex on May 1, 2017, to criticize President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (CBS "The Late Show" screenshot)

Stephen Colbert uses vulgar gay sex joke to mock Donald Trump

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Showtime to air Stone interviews with Vladimir Putin

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens, right, to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to a camera, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Tillerson's Moscow talks hinge on new US leverage over Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Vladimir Putin meets Rex Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump hails ‘great work’ by Rex Tillerson in Moscow

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Trump received a briefing on the Syria military strike from his national security team, including a video teleconference with Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a secured location at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (Associated Press)

Trump’s brilliant move turns tables on Putin and the world

By L. Todd Wood - The Washington Times

A woman pays her respects at a symbolic memorial at Tekhnologichesky Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia's second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The Latest: Putin discusses terrorism with Merkel, Hollande

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In this Friday, March 31, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the National Association of Manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump calls Vladimir Putin, offers U.S. help in responding to St. Petersburg bombing

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video footage, emergency services work outside Sennaya Square metro station in St Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 3, 2017. At least 10 people were killed Monday in an explosion on the subway in St. Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Trump calls Putin to offer condolences for bomb

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Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers near a St. Petersburg subway station that was hit by a terrorist bombing on Monday. (Associated Press)

Russian train bomb hits Vladimir Putin’s hometown

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Wax museum employee Nikolay Borisov puts final touches to the wax models of US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, displayed in the wax museum in Sofia, Friday March 31, 2017. The wax figures of both leaders and other international personalities are part of a visiting exhibition from the Retro Museum from the Black Sea town of Varna, going on show to the public for the first time on Saturday. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Figures of Trump and Putin meet in Bulgarian mall

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday March 27, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool photo via AP)

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman: ‘New Cold War’ may be coming amid ongoing election hacking claims

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Many younger Serbs are in favor of fostering closer ties with the West and moving the economy more in line with the EU. However, cultural and historic ties to Russia remain strong, as Moscow was a key supporter during the 1990s war that ultimately led to Kosovo's independence. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin’s pull looming over Serbia presidential vote

By Sasa Milosevic and Valerie Plesch — Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto during a meeting at sidewalks of the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool photo via AP)

Putin blasts ‘fictional’ hacking claims ahead of Senate hearing

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Protesters hold a cardboard cutout poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at Marsivo Field in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, March 26, 2017. Thousands of people crowded in St.Petersburg on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance in years. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Biggest anti-Kremlin rally in years rocks Russia; opposition leader arrested

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. Le Pen has made multiple visits to Russia, as have her father, niece and other members of the National Front, often meeting with Russian legislators. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin meets Marine Le Pen, denies French election interference

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2016, file photo, Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Paul Manafort worked to help Vladimir Putin government: Associated Press

By Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day - Associated Press

The Trump administration tried to explain away that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson would skip a key NATO gathering by saying other U.S. representatives will be present. (Associated Press)

Rex Tillerson skipping NATO meeting has White House scrambling for explanation

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, confers with the committee's ranking member, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March, 14, 2017, prior to the start of the committee's hearing on the investigation of nude photographs of female Marines and other women that were shared on the Facebook page "Marines United." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John McCain jumps the shark — slams Rand Paul as Putin pet

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times