How to Use the Kremlin in a Sentence

the Kremlin

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  • In the summer of 2000, Putin met in the Kremlin with about two dozen of the men regarded as the top oligarchs.
    — Jim Heintz The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Abramyan had the ear of senior officials in the Kremlin.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Serbia acts as the player in the Kremlin’s bid for prominence in the Balkans.
    — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 12 May 2024
  • Newsweek reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry and the Kremlin for comment.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Video taken by a Ukrainian soldier shows the true nature of the Kremlin.
    — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The media has called Navalny the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
    — Mark Kennedy, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
  • It has been used to target journalists and people who speak out against the Kremlin.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • And, to put it lightly, the aggravation in the Kremlin increased.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • On May 3, two explosive drones targeted the Kremlin, in the heart of the capital.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But the dissonance among the Russian leader’s base must unnerve the Kremlin.
    — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That reflects the extent to which the Kremlin is convinced, and has persuaded Russians, that the war in Ukraine is a proxy for a long-term struggle with the West.
    — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • But the Kremlin’s main objective in the east is conquest, and Russian forces have been stymied by the Ukrainian defenders.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In December 2022, the Kremlin listed Kolesnikov as a foreign agent.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Watch how the rest of the world regards the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions.
    — Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The video, released Wednesday by the Kremlin, showed the Russian president was not happy with news from the southern region of Kursk.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • China’s sparse statement did not provide many details of the trip, though the Kremlin’s statement gave a few details on what to expect.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The current moment is unlikely to provoke much soul-searching in the Kremlin.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Then, in mid-July, Putin published a 5,000-word article on the Kremlin’s website.
    — Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Although the Kremlin denies any part in these violent episodes.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The surge in diesel imports from India also illustrates a fundamental shift in oil trading in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
    — Prejula Prem, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In addition, the winter has been a fairly mild one, frustrating the Kremlin’s effort to sap morale by leaving Ukrainians in the cold and dark.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But those losses have prompted the Kremlin to redouble its efforts to fortify the Black Sea Fleet.
    — Radina Gigova, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • For a long time, the Kremlin has done a diplomatic dance in the Middle East to maintain equally good relations with all the major players.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Events like those that unfolded in late July can no longer be easily explained away by the Kremlin.
    — Christopher Michael Faulkner, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In his own article published in the Kremlin’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper in the hours leading up to the visit, Xi struck a softer tone.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Nevertheless, the Kremlin is hoping that enough countries in the world are ready to move on, for one reason or another.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But when war erupted in Ukraine, Andrew Peters volunteered to join the fight against the Kremlin’s invasion.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Helsinki says Russia is funneling migrants to the border, a charge the Kremlin has denied.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Russia remains at war with Ukraine, which was behind a surprise cross-border incursion last week that put the Kremlin on edge.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Much of what has been written on the subject has focused narrowly on the Kremlin, with little, if any, attention to the underpinnings of the Putin regime.
    — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023

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