The world of 2025 and onward is largely determined by the thoughts, ambitions, prejudices, greed, and perhaps strategic vision of three powerful men, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and then German chancellor Angela Merkel are joined by his dog Conny before talks at the presidential residence near the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Jan. 21, 2007.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Jan 27 praised Soviet ... was an atrocity of the same order of magnitude to the Holocaust. Mr Putin, born in 1952, is a native of the city, which ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the ceremony ... (PHOTO: AP/Alexei Danichev) Putin, born in 1952, is a native of the city, which was renamed to Saint Petersburg.