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Yevgeny V Prigozhin built the mercenary force Wagner Group as he enriched himself thanks to his ties with President Vladimir Putin which helped him get the Russian government's lucrative contracts for construction and catering
Vladimir Putin had had bad blood for years with Donald Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton, and the Russian President appeared eager to get even with her in the 2016 US presidential election for orchestrating protests to topple him
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the secular Turkish republic, banned Sufi orders, put mosques under government control, mandated officials to wear European-style brimmed hats, and banned Arabic as part of sweeping measures to impose secularism on Turks
Vladimir Putin felt a sense of humiliation over the collapse of the USSR, the country he deeply loved, and for him, it was the 'greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century' By Sameer Arshad Khatlani Vladimir Putin was in the thick of things when the Communist block crumbled with the fall of the Berlin Wall. … Continue reading What USSR’s Collapse Has To Do With Politics, Wars Of Putin
Sri Lanka is unlikely to immediately overcome the chaos as the next government faces an uphill task of addressing shortages of essentials such as food, medicine, and fuel
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have invoked nostalgia for Russia and China's imperial past to justify their expansionism
