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Ron Kirk

...And we would say, “No, Prime Minister [Vladimir] Putin , President [Dmitry] Medvedev. This i...
...but clearly then-Prime Minister Putin , now President Putin, much lik...
...clearly then-Prime Minister Putin, now President Putin , much like President Xi [Jinping] i...

Jeffrey Bader

...in the post–World War II world. But [Vladimir] Putin in Russia is obviously demonstratin...

John Podesta

...by the way, to figure out what [Vladimir] Putin wanted. [Laughs] Yes. Thank God fo...

Frank Rose

...Conference in 2007. At that conference, [Vladimir] Putin lays out all of his grievances agains...
...Medvedev was a useful stand-in for Putin . Putin had a very different view abou...
...was a useful stand-in for Putin. Putin had a very different view about nuclea...
...back in 2007, two interesting points. Putin gives that big speech in Munich. H...

Charles Kupchan

...to be more hard line and to stand up to [Vladimir] Putin , but she didn't have the politica...
...that was the strongest suit, because Putin thought that he would be able to pee...
...in the other direction was really about Putin and his decision to govern on ...
...the collapse of the reset on him, on Putin . I think he made a conscious choice t...
...I think I would put most of the onus on Putin , but I do think that the United State...

Victoria Nuland

...forty-three] years on dealing with Putin . So I'd had quite a bit of experienc...
...happened, it was better and easier for Putin politically to blame us. and of course...
...think, the beginning of the end of the Putin –Hillary Clinton relationship. Did yo...
...that the statement would invoke from Putin ? No, because he had already hear...
...what might be possible for an Obama- Putin summit. That comes up in the context o...

...president had not had much contact with Putin for the previous six months, or ther...
...more years, the question was, what was Putin willing to do together? We had had th...
...was open to having another summit with Putin if we could announce some productiv...
...about it wrong.” Then, of course, Putin puts more pressure on Yanukovych an...
...that win-win. And this is when Putin offers a three-billion-dollar loan a...
...Correct, correct. And obviously Putin —he got what he wanted, which was...
...it, and he wouldn't open his books. And Putin would let him continue to be corrupt a...
...him continue to be corrupt as long as Putin himself could eat half of the Ukrainia...
...as well. You've talked before about Putin 's zero-sum mindset on these issues...
...in your previous experiences with Putin and how they were informing how yo...
...interest, we had had some success with Putin . So the New START Treaty was a...
...a cash cow Yanukovych's Ukraine was for Putin 's oligarchs. You don't have to spen...
...understood that it was emotional for Putin . But given that the Russian econom...
...was just too much of a threat to Putin 's governance model. Populations ar...
...it here and throughout the provinces?” Putin understood that far better than we di...
...conversation about what Putin could do in the context of Maidan an...
...amount of violence, including Putin with a stick at Yanukovych's bac...
...night, Yanukovych had, probably at Putin 's incitement, sent the OMON [Specia...
...tenth or so, probably—again, under Putin 's influence—Yanukovych jams throug...
...his own people he can't even get his Putin -style, draconian legislation to stick...
...you and this transitional government.” Putin was particularly unhappy with th...
...So those kinds of ideas. But of course, Putin wasn't biting, and Lavrov would perfec...
...“I need options to make this cost for Putin , but I don't want to get into ...
...way that we were going to influence Putin . So, what kinds of sanctions could w...
...and Donbas policy, as well as some of Putin 's close cronies, in an effort to hav...
...in '14 and '15, at least in blunting Putin 's role. But they weren't effective a...
...call “put them in the shop window,” and Putin had moved anyway, so we were able t...
...a US-Russia conflict, or even to give Putin that excuse. And where are you i...
...assets out there, because part of Putin 's strategy throughout '14 wa...
...who thought that this would provoke Putin . I wanted to ask specifically abou...
...think the barbarity of what Putin was up to certainly sunk in afte...
...out. The president was going to see Putin at the UN General Assembly, and we wan...
...now. We need to make this hurt for Putin , or he will just escalate.” We worke...
...to the president's decision to give Putin this strong warning when they meet—...
...about NATO, and that he was loving on Putin and attacking Germans after he wa...
...both had a reputation of being tough on Putin , before people were willing to be a...
...people were willing to be as tough on Putin as they were later, after he did a lo...
...much to do better deterrence I think on Putin . We have hit three o'clock. There's ...
...the views of autocrats, whether it's Putin or Xi Jinping, or even allies who ar...

Gary Pruitt

...in Russia, mentioned it to me. He's [Vladimir] Putin 's spokesman now. These people kne...
...Russia and the Ukraine investigation. Putin closed down the independent media...

Michael Daniel

...at the end of September, confronts President Putin about it at a summit; we release th...

Thomas Holst

...where there is a close circle of President Putin 's friends and allies, people that h...

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