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Putin arrives for his inauguration ceremony in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2024.
Opinion

Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions

by David J. Kramer

The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Putin last appeared on U.S. soil for a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, in August 2025. That meeting produced no progress toward ending the war that Putin started against Ukraine. If anything, the Russian bombardment of

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Why EU sanctions have missed company behind Russia's tank industry?

With more than four years of full-scale war and 12 years since Russia first invaded Ukraine, it seems the European Union has developed an extensive arsenal of tools to sanction Moscow, but one problem appears to persist: the visibility problem. Consider two companies that share a name. The first is Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, Russia's only tank manufacturer. It has been under EU sanctions since March 2022 for supplying the T-72B3 tanks used against Ukrai

Russian tanks move during the military exercises near Borisov, Belarus, on Sept. 15, 2025.

Montenegro to expel founder of Russian war blog Rybar, citing security reasons

"Today, employees of the Police Department, together with the National Security Agency and with the support of international partners, conducted a targeted and coordinated operation aimed at preventing, detecting, and neutralizing illegal activities on the territory of Montenegro," Montenegro's police said.

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