President Vladimir Putin

Cars drive past a mural of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Krakow, Poland. More than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion of that country began in February — many have ended up in Poland.

Reporter describes an astounding amount of military hardware going in to help Ukraine

9:28pm March 24, 2022

by Terry Gross

Time reporter Simon Shuster recently returned from the Ukrainian-Polish border. Watching as U.S. planes brought in loads of weapons, he felt like he was standing on the brink of something massive.

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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles as she shakes hands with Russian acting President Vladimir Putin, right, in Moscow's Kremlin, in 2000. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday.

Madeleine Albright had a lot to say about Putin — and she didn't mince words

1:19pm March 24, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The former U.S. secretary of state recalled the first time she met Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 1999 during the Clinton administration.

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Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna, Austria in 2017.

As performing artists denounce or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons

6:07pm March 03, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, speaks to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during their meeting at The Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Scholz visited Ukraine as part of a flurry of Western diplomacy aimed at heading off a feare

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German chancellor warns of far-reaching sanctions if Russia moves on Ukraine

9:58pm February 14, 2022

Olaf Scholz did not elaborate on specifics during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday but he did pledge a new round of financial assistance to Kyiv.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures as he stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.

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Russia has officially named jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny a terrorist

1:35am January 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the armed forces, train in a city park in Kyiv. Tensions remain high between Ukraine and Russia as the United States and its NATO allies have tried to intervene diplomatically.

90 tons of U.S. military aid arrives in Ukraine as border tensions with Russia rise

1:30pm January 22, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The aid, which includes ammunition, is part of a $200 million package that President Biden approved in December and is meant for Ukraine's front-line defenders should Russia choose to invade.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before their meeting on Friday in Geneva.

The U.S. and Russia are talking, and Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance

12:50pm January 21, 2022

by Scott Neuman

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ended talks in Geneva with no major breakthroughs but an agreement to keep talking.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is going into self-isolation because of coronavirus cases among his inner circle.

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Russian President Putin Self-Isolates After Staffers Get COVID-19

12:41pm September 14, 2021

The Russian leader will attend an upcoming regional meeting via teleconference, the Kremlin said. Putin said he got his second COVID-19 vaccine in April.

President Biden waves as he prepares to depart the airport after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, on June 16.

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Opinion: We Don't Need A Biden Doctrine Dividing The World Into Good And Bad

6:10pm June 22, 2021

President Biden sees foreign policy as a battle between democracies and autocracies — and that's a flawed doctrine, according to analysts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.

Joe Biden met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2011, when Biden was U.S. vice president and Putin was Russia's prime minister. A decade later, the two will meet as presidents in Geneva on June 16.

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Biden And Putin Won't Hold A Joint News Conference After Their Geneva Meeting

10:53am June 12, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Biden will instead hold a solo press conference, which a White House official called "the appropriate format to clearly communicate with the free press the topics that were raised in the meeting."