Daily Memo: Putin Warns the West, Prague Calls for Backup

The Kremlin’s answer to threats will be “asymmetric, fast and tough,” the Russian president said.

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The state of Putin’s nation. In his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin covered all the usual subjects: difficulties in the Russian economy, COVID-19 and the health care sector, and measures to support families with new government payments. But it’s Russia’s foreign policy that’s been the focus of international attention lately, […]

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