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Home » Vladimir Putin

Tag: Vladimir Putin

Posted inOn Culture

‘Are we calling this an invasion? It’s really a war.’

by Deanna Isaacs March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

There were two crowds in front of Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukrainian Village on a frigid afternoon last week. One was the medieval crowd that’s always there, on the church’s iconic mural—a depiction of the baptism of the Ukrainian people. The other consisted of several hundred live and livid Chicagoans reacting […]

Posted inNews

Queer Ukrainians in Chicago fear the worst amid Russian invasion

by Adam M. Rhodes February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

Russia’s violent history toward the LGBTQ+ community has many worried that anti-queer violence will be meted out in Ukraine.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

See no evil

by Ben Joravsky August 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Democrats and Republicans have their own reasons for looking the other way when Putin’s operatives hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections’ computers.

Posted inArts & Culture

We Are Pussy Riot (or) Everything Is P.R. questions the role of spectators in protest art

by Kerry Reid June 12, 2019August 18, 2021

There is method to the mess in this Red Tape Theatre production.

Posted inBlogs

Pussy Riot use their Riot Fest set to demand justice for a fallen comrade—and for all the oppressed

by Julia Hale September 15, 2018August 18, 2021

The likely poisoning of Pussy Riot member Peter Verzilov this week didn’t keep the group from Riot Fest, where they delivered loud criticisms of Russia and the United States.

Posted inBlogs

Daniel Biss to rock the vote onstage with Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot in Chicago

by Ryan Smith March 5, 2018August 18, 2021

The Democratic governor candidate will make a campaign stop at the show at Subterranean on Tuesday night.

Posted inBlogs

The public thinks Trump-media relations are unhealthy. It couldn’t be more wrong.

by Michael Miner April 7, 2017August 18, 2021

Counterintuitively, current tensions between the White House and the media have made the relationship healthier.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

With collusion question, Mike Quigley probes Trump team’s connection to Russia

by Ben Joravsky March 28, 2017August 18, 2021

The Illinois rep and House Intelligence Committee member asks what Trump knew about the Russian hacks and when he knew it.

Posted inBlogs

Making sense of Putin’s ‘ghastly trick’

by Michael Miner March 23, 2017August 18, 2021

Piecing through what we know—and what we think we know—about ongoing investigations into Russian interference with U.S. presidential elections.

Posted inNews & Politics

Liberals are finally listening to Thomas Frank about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party

by Ryan Smith March 22, 2017August 18, 2021

The author of Listen Liberal looks prescient in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Tribune’s conservative cartoonist takes a bite out of Trump

by Michael Miner March 16, 2017August 18, 2021

Scott Stantis wields the cartoonist’s unique license to mock against the current president.

Posted inBlogs

Here’s proof that pro-Trump trolls don’t have a sense of humor

by Brianna Wellen February 1, 2017August 18, 2021

The star of Barron Trump: Up Past Bedtime has received death threats online.

Posted inBlogs

Obama’s farewell speech vs. the salacious Trump memo: a tale of two Americas

by Ben Joravsky January 11, 2017August 18, 2021

While President Obama was making a high-minded appeal to our better angels, BuzzFeed was offering some sordid and sleazy allegations about Donald Trump.

Posted inBlogs

Thursday was actually a bad day for Trump

by Michael Miner July 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Millions of voting Americans—including hundreds of thousands in Chicago—come from those Eastern European countries Trump might not bother to defend

Posted inBlogs

Pundits say presidents who won’t lead the country into war have trouble leading it anywhere

by Michael Miner April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

It’s in America’s nature to be at war because freedom always needs defending.

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