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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The moves against Shlosberg and Yabloko highlight the Kremlin’s intolerance toward any criticism of the war, now in its fifth year. — CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026 But the Kremlin’s progressive embrace of a wartime economy has nonetheless led to major distortions, including rising inflation acute labor shortages, leaving the country in an increasingly precarious fiscal state. — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Yet the remedies the Kremlin has pursued to tackle the crisis have been woefully insufficient, said Samuel Bendett and Maria Snegovaya in Foreign Policy. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 15 Aug. 2026 Andropov died in 1984, and Gorbachev took more than a year to gain power while the Kremlin stumbled along under the caretaker regime of the grievously ill Konstantin Chernenko. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Kremlin

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