Questions and Answers about
Vladimir Putin
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in PoliticsHow did Kim Jong-Un roll into Russia for his meeting with Putin on Sept. 12, 2023?
Answer: On Sept. 12, 2023, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea’s supreme leader. didn’t just hop on a plane or drive to Russia. Instead, he chose his dark green, luxuriously decorated armored train for a 20-hour journey to Vladivostok, Russia. This slow-moving fortress comes complete with reddish-pink leather armchairs and an average 60 kph (around 37 mph)…
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in PoliticsWhat did Russian President Putin say about Yevgeny Prigozhin after his death?
Answer: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head honcho of the Russian mercenary Wagner force and the failed June 2023 rebellion, often dubbed “Putin’s chef,” met his untimely end in a plane crash on August 23, 2023. Following the event, President Vladimir Putin, in a rare display of culinary critique, described Prigozhin as an adept entrepreneur who navigated…
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in PoliticsHow close did the rogue Wagner troops get to Moscow before their boss Prigozhin had a change of heart?
Answer: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner private military company, led an armed rebellion against the Russian military on June 24, 2023. He claimed that his forces came within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Moscow before he agreed to halt his advance and return to his bases. He made this decision after talks with…
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in PoliticsHow did Russia react to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 30, 2023?
Answer: Russia’s Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after criticizing the Putin regime and praising US military assistance to Ukraine during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on May 30, 2023. Graham responded defiantly by challenging Russia to submit to the International Criminal Court, where Putin faces a…
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in PoliticsWho is the first world leader to shake Putin’s hand since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest?
Answer: Chinese leader Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 20, 2023. He is the first world leader to meet the Russian leader, a few days after the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes in Ukraine. Xi presented China as a global peacemaker intent on ending the Ukraine war. In its…
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Which country gave Steven Seagal a humanitarian award?
Answer: Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded actor Steven Seagal the Order of Friendship on February 27, 2023, for his “humanitarian work,” which included his cooperation with Russia and his adoration for Putin. Seagal got Russian citizenship after expressing admiration for Putin in 2016 and is known for backing the annexation of Crimea.
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in PoliticsAccording to his 2023 State-of-the-Nation speech, how does Vladimir Putin plan to fight Western sanctions in the future?
Answer: During his state-of-the-nation address on Feb. 21, 2023, Putin said Russia would change its education system and science and technology policies to withstand Western sanctions. He also warned that Moscow could resume nuclear tests. Putin accused Western elites of targeting Russian culture, religion, and values because they “realize it is impossible to defeat Russia…
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in PoliticsAccording to Putin’s Feb. 2023 State of the Nation speech, Ukraine is under the occupation of who?
Answer: On Feb. 21, 2023. the Russian president gave his annual state-of-the-nation address. In his speech. Putin said war was the new normal. According to Putin, as Ukraine has been effectively occupied by “the Kyiv regime and its Western overlords,” Russia would respond accordingly to the West trying to turn a local conflict into a…
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in PoliticsIn July 2022, Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia. Which middle eastern country did Vladimir Putin visit in the same week?
Answer: President Joe Biden, on July 16, 2022, capped a four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia – where he met with leaders of the Arab world on his first trip to the Middle East since taking office. Three days later, on July 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and…
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in FoodWhat’s a Poutine?
Answer: Poutine is a classic Quebec dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with brown gravy. The dish’s name is widely believed to come from the French-Canadian pronunciation of the English word “pudding.” The famous dish shares its name – in French transliteration – with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Poutine restaurants in France…
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in PoliticsWhen British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says Putin has gone “full tonto” over Ukraine, what does he mean?
Answer: When someone goes “full tonto” in English slang, he’s acting like a lunatic. The term, a former name of various subgroups of the Apache people, literally means “foolish” in Spanish. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Feb. 23, 2022, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had gone “full tonto” over Ukraine by invading it.…
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in PoliticsRussian Poisoning: What was The Cell (AKA Kamera)?
Kamera (which means “The Cell” in Russian) was the poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, operating until the late 1990s. Under Putin’s rule, there has been a surging wave of suspicious Russian poisonings.
