Russia and Iran are combining their banking systems to get around being banned from SWIFT

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is pictured on the left while Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is pictured on the right.

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Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an 'extraordinary' phone call weeks before Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson talk in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson talk in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2022.

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Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Putin believes it's his 'destiny' to 'recreate the Russian Empire'

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates endorses retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Kelly's confirmation to be Secretary of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill on January 10, 2017.

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How Russia is molding the minds of schoolkids to support its brutal invasion of Ukraine

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A screengrab circulated by Russia's Ministry of Education, showing Ukrainians in the occupied Donetsk region dancing and singing the Russian national anthem and waving the Russian flag.

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Putin is pardoning thieves, hit men, and murderers so that they can go to fight in Ukraine, Kremlin admits

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on January 3, 2023.

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Indian police are looking into the death of a Russian sausage magnate critical of Putin's war in Ukraine, who died after an alcohol-fueled trip in the jungle

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Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on November 29,2022.

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