Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Mark Adomanis: Excerpts from Putin’s latest interview
This handout photo taken and released by G20 Australia on November 16, 2014 shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) waving goodbye as he leaves the G20 Summit, at the airport in Brisbane.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently sat down for a rather lengthy interview with Andrei Bandenko of TASS. In one of those insane twists of fate that seem to happen far more frequently in Russia than anywhere else, Bandenko was actually born and raised in Lugansk, a Ukrainian city that has been the scene of some of the very worst fighting over the past few months.