the Kremlin

noun

: the government of Russia and the former Soviet Union
an announcement from the Kremlin
also : the buildings of the Russian government in Moscow
We visited the Kremlin when we traveled to Russia.

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But more than four years later, the invasion has turned into a quagmire that has crushed the Kremlin’s finances. Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 Blind to Russia’s own staged electoral process, the Kremlin has repeatedly pushed the idea that the martial law prohibition on Ukrainian elections in wartime means Zelensky is illegitimate. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 Known as Eurasianism, this conviction in the fundamental difference between Russia and the West at least partly underpins the Kremlin’s ruling ideology today. Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Russians are withdrawing billions, causing liquidity problems for banks and undermining the Kremlin’s ability to issue bonds to finance the fight in Ukraine. Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Kremlin

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