Roger Boyes and Katerina Kravtsova
In the winter after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 38-year old KGB officer Vladimir Putin returned almost penniless from Dresden to his native city of St Petersburg in the collapsing Soviet Union. He had a 20-year-old washing machine and savings from his monthly salary of $270.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the U.S. rejects Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea and called on Moscow to end its occupation of the territory. Pompeo said this in a statement in advance of his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where senators are expected to question him about the President’s closed-door meeting […]