Vladimir Putin has done much to rehabilitate Russia’s Soviet past, a rehabilitation that has grown apace with memorials once again erected to Joseph Stalin, and officials no longer embarrassed to hang portraits of the late Soviet dictator in their offices.
MoreAll American diplomats left Kabul and the United States has suspended its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 30, hours after the U.S. military completed its withdrawal from the country.
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