Putin built identical offices across Russia to conceal his location, a Russian intelligence officer who defected says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the restoration of residential infrastructure in the border areas destroyed during emergency situations, via a video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via a video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on February 1, 2023.

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Putin is so paranoid about being tracked, he travels in a secret grey train that stealthily blends in with other Russian locomotives, says a former elite Russian security officer

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Russian President Vladimir Putin travels by an aeroexpress train in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on October 28, 2013.
Russian President Vladimir Putin travels by an aeroexpress train in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on October 28, 2013.

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US journalist detained in Russia reportedly reading famous anti-Soviet novel by a Ukrainian Jew as he sits in notorious ex-KGB prison

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Putin lives in an 'information vacuum' and never uses a cellphone or the internet, a Russian intelligence officer who defected says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference, on March 20, 2023 in Moscow.

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Finland joins NATO, creating a new geopolitical nightmare for Putin, one that he sparked himself

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia on March 30, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia on March 30, 2023.

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Russia praises military blogger who was killed in a cafe explosion for 'boldly' dying and 'doing his duty'

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A man lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, who was killed in the April 2 bomb blast in a cafe, by the explosion site in Saint Petersburg on April 3, 2023.
A man lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, who was killed in the April 2 blast in a cafe, by the explosion site in Saint Petersburg on April

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasts Russia's chairmanship of the UN Security Council as 'absurd' and says it shows 'the complete bankruptcy of such institutions'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin could be a 'dead man walking,' a former CIA counterintelligence chief told an interviewer

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Arrested WSJ reporter could become 'bargaining chip' following West's success in smashing Russia's suspected global spy rings, ex-CIA officer says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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A growing list of countries say they will arrest Putin if he goes there, enforcing an international warrant accusing him of war crimes

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Eurasian Economic Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 9, 2022.

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