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To: CentralParkRanger who wrote (7001)12/19/2025 12:34:19 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Respond to of 7058
 
one of them was normal

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He Was a Key Aide to Putin. Then He Balked at the Ukraine War.
Dmitri N. Kozak, who has said privately that the invasion was a mistake, has lost power to another senior Putin ally, Sergei V. Kiriyenko, who has embraced the military action.

By Anton Troianovski

Anton Troianovski spoke extensively with Kremlin insiders and people in the West to document Dmitri N. Kozak’s quiet criticism of the Ukraine war.

Aug. 10, 2025

For decades, President Vladimir V. Putin turned to one loyal aide for some of his most delicate assignments.

When Mr. Putin became prime minister in 1999, he named the aide, Dmitri N. Kozak, his chief of staff. When Russia won the bidding in 2007 to host the Winter Olympics seven years later, Mr. Kozak managed the preparations for the Games. When Mr. Putin annexed Crimea in 2014, Mr. Kozak oversaw its integration into Russia. As....

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A rare step down not involving a high rise building:

By Anton Troianovski

Reporting from Berlin

Sept. 18, 2025

Dmitri N. Kozak, a long-serving aide to President Vladimir V. Putin who told confidants that he believed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a mistake, has resigned his post, the Kremlin said on Thursday.

Mr. Kozak, 66, stepped down “voluntarily” as a deputy chief of staff to Mr. Putin, Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters. Russian news outlets had earlier reported Mr. Kozak’s departure.

Resignations of high-ranking officials are rare in Mr. Putin’s Russia,....

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