The war of words between former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies continued late Wednesday after Albright called Putin a “smart, but truly evil man” in a newspaper interview, Newsweek reported. In an interview with Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Albright defended former President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy, in which she served during his first term. During Clinton’s presidency, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary were the first former Communist states to join NATO in 1999, the first step of an eastward expansion which has strongly incensed Moscow. “I am very proud of the NATO expansion. Then we managed to use the power of...
