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FILE - Then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse while traveling in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), Russia, Aug. 3, 2009. Putin has shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look þÄúdisgustingþÄù if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances. Putin made the comment during a visit to Turkmenistan early Thursday, June 30, 2022 when asked about Western leaders joking about him at the G-7 summit. (Alexei Druzhinin/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Russia’s good old days are gone

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. By ending 77 years of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe, war in Ukraine war has joined the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of manned spaceflight as a watershed in history. After nearly a half-year of fighting, tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, massive disruptions to supplies of energy, food and financial stability, the world is no longer as it was.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Analysis: A world changed, maybe permanently, by Ukraine war

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Illustration on climate change policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Climate change is not a national security emergency

By Clifford D. May

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, file photo released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft, top right, is intercepted near the Alaska coastline. A similar incursion by two Russian maritime patrol aircraft tested the U.S. and Canadian air defense zone in early July 2022, in a show of force in the midst of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine and nuclear saber-rattling, the commander of the Northern Command said on July 22. (North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP, File) **FILE**

Russia tests U.S. air defenses in midst of Ukraine war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

By Nasser Karimi and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov arrive to attend the opening of the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Zhukovsky, Russia, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday replaced Russian Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin with Yuri Borisov, a deputy prime minister who was in charge of weapons industries. Borisov's duties were handed over to Denis Manturov, the minister of industry and trade who was also given the rank of a deputy prime minister. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Putin reshuffles top officials, names new space agency head

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Why Iran cracks down at home, cozies up to Moscow

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Moscow Region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 11, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin to visit Iran next week, will also meet with Turkish president

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President Joe Biden is seen here in Scranton, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Diplomatic drama as Biden, Putin weigh G-20 leaders’ summit

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to winners of the Leaders of Russia Competition, the flagship project of the Russia - Land of Opportunity presidential platform in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin to Ukraine: Russia has barely started its action

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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Medvedev warned the U.S. Wednesday that it could face the "wrath of God" if it pursues efforts to help establish an international tribunal to investigate Russia's action in Ukraine. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Pool Photo via AP)

Putin’s aide warns US against pressing for war crimes court

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Illustration on the founding principles, Constitution and ideals of America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. must lead in shaping the future of the world

By Clifford D. May

Ukrainian platoon commander Mariia rests in a trench in a position in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, July 2, 2022. Ukrainian soldiers returning from the frontlines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region describe life during what has turned into a grueling war of attrition as apocalyptic. Mariia, 41, said that front-line conditions may vary depending on where a unit is positioned and how well supplied they are. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Putin declares victory in embattled Donbas region of Luhansk

By Francesca Ebel - Associated Press

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to take away debris at a shopping center burned after a rocket attack in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. While much of the attritional war in Ukraine’s east is hidden from sight, the brutality of Russian missile strikes in recent days on the mall in the central city of Kremenchuk and on residential buildings in the capital, Kyiv, were in full view to the world and especially to Western leaders gathered for a trio of summits in Europe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off

By Tamer Fakahany and Cara Anna - Associated Press

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The London Times' Tony Halpin suspects Russian women will be swooning over photos of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin riding horseback bare-chested.

Western leaders would look ‘disgusting’ without shirts, Putin says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The Nirvana, a sleek 88-meter-long superyacht worth about $300 million, owned by Vladimir Potanin, head of the world's largest refined nickel and palladium producer in Russia, is docked at Port Rashid terminal in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Potanin, the man considered to be the wealthiest oligarch in Russia, joins a growing list of those transferring — or, sailing — their prized assets to Dubai as the West tightens its massive sanctions program. Potanin may not be sanctioned by the United States or Europe yet; such sanctions could roil metal markets and potentially disrupt supply chains, experts say. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Yacht of wealthiest Russian oligarch docked in haven Dubai

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

From right, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and French President Emmanuel Macron address a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The European Union's leaders have agreed to make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership, setting in motion a potentially years long process that could draw the embattled country further away from Russia's influence and bind it more closely to the West. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Ukraine gets EU invite, in rebuke to Putin

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A ruined tank remains on a road in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Western solidarity tested as Europeans divided over immediate end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Biden was returning from Philadelphia where he spoke at the AFL-CIO convention and talked about how he is trying to make the economy work for working-class Americans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to oil companies: Produce more gasoline, fewer profits to alleviate pain at pump

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian soldier looks at a drone screen showing Russian troops positions during heavy fighting at the front line in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

West denounces death sentences for 3 who fought for Ukraine

By Bernat Armangué and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press