President Donald Trump took his harshest tone on Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, signaling a stronger stance in Ukraine.

On Russia, Trump is amazingly conventional, following in the well-worn path of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President George W. Bush speak during a joint press conference at the President's summer retreat Docharov Ruchei in Sochi, Russia, on April 6, 2008.

President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, attended a dinner in 2006 with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where Bush met Prigozhin. DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP via Getty Images ...

President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t ...

As the war broke out, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush happened to be at the Olympics in Beijing. PETER BAKER, Author, Days of Fire: Bush finds himself at the Olympics sitting in the same row as ...

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was pictured with George W. Bush in 2006 at a dinner hosted by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Their encounter took place before the 2006 G8 summit in St ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin shared his views on six U.S. presidents he has encountered during his time in office. He praised former U.S. President George W. Bush, calling him "very successful ...

Former U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2008. Bush told a forum in Kyiv that he had been served food by the late Wagner chief Yevgeny ...

U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, seated on the left, attend a dinner in Strelna outside St. Petersburg on July 14, 2006, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his then-wife ...

Former U.S. President George W. Bush (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) at Camp David on September 27, 2003, in Maryland. Putin has visited the U.S. seven times as president.