The Wikipedia article on Putin is quite balanced, and gives a brief summary of his career. It should help you understand what kind of leader Putin is.
Whether or not Putin can reasonably be called a “dictator” is a more difficult question to answer. The concept “dictator” is vague, used in many different senses, and its…

Russia dearly wants good relations with Europe and does not want the EU to collapse. Some members of the European Union regard Russia as an enemy, most notably, Poland the the Baltic states. Others don’t regard Russia as an enemy. Attitudes towards Russia amongst other EU members span a broad spectrum, some are more positively inclined…

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Ahmad Kahn Rahami is the Islamist terrorist, of Afghan origins, wanted for the N.Y. and N.J. bombings. Kudo to Governor Andrew Cuomo! He concluded as we did on the CFR Wall yesterday the bombing was terrorism. Unlike Mayor De Blasio, also a Dem but…

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Did you happen to notice the…

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The mainstream media hounds, salivating for a juicy story on “erratic” Trump defending the birther movement, were handily hoodwinked…

Longstanding relations between Moscow and the Kurds has provided Russia with a “Kurdish card”, that is, the ability to modulate its support to various Kurdish national ambitions throughout the Middle East, depending on what the Kremlin was seeking to obtain from Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The current Syrian crisis is no exception and…

For many years now North Korea has been relentlessly trying to perfect its nuclear program by conducting four nuclear tests and developing ballistic missiles that could be topped with nuclear warheads.

A Russian regional security expert in Vladivostok says North Korea cannot but continue to develop nuclear weapons because it believes that is the…

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Donald, time is running out. Your views about Russia, Ukraine  and your relationship with Vladimir Putin must be clarified. Be sure…

Selection of a new secretary-general, touted by UN media as the most open in the history of the organization, has devolved into a politically correct charade, driven by themes like social inclusion, sexual politics, sustainability, transparency and entitlement. 
 
These media memes weren't invented in India, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria…

Northeast Asia after the Ukrainian Crisis: Threat to Regional Security Evgenii Vyacheslavovich Gamerman   Researchers have yet to understand the reasons behind the background and characteristics of the driving forces of the Ukrainian crisis. The key feature of what is happening in Ukraine is that the conflict is transpiring almost completely in…

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Donald, your visit with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is brilliant but it is also a gamble. If the meeting doesn’t go well the trip will be exploited by the…

In November 1983 the Soviet Union began to increase the combat readiness of its forces in Eastern Europe, including the air force forward-deployed in East Germany, in preparation to meet an expected pre-emptive strike by the United States and its allies. 
 
The cause of this anxiety was the 1983 Able Archer NATO military exercise, an…