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Rapper Kanye West performs onstage during the "Vultures 1" playback concert during Rolling Loud 2024 the at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 14, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Kanye West's alleged trip to Russia

Gabriella Ferrigine
U.S. President Joe Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden orders Russian sanctions

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin | Civilian participants in a Kyiv Territorial Defence unit train on a Saturday in a forest on January 22, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden and Putin spoke for an hour

Kelly McClure
Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

FBI raids home of Oleg Deripaska

Jon Skolnik
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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin picked "mentally unstable" Trump

Jon Skolnik
Lawrence O'Donnell (AP/Chris Pizzello)

MSNBC host: I made an error in judgement

Shira Tarlo
Mural Depicts Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin in Lithuania (Getty/Sean Gallup)

An east-meets-west love story

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
(Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Dan Peleschuk - GlobalPost
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