Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin — with little public exposure as deputy mayor of St Petersburg — took the oath of the highest office in the post-Communist Russia. A quarter century later, Putin, 72, still remains the most popular politician of Russia, as was evident by last … Read more
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian forces still planned to cease fire in Ukraine from May 8-10 as per President Vladimir Putin‘s orders, but would respond if Ukrainian forces tried to strike Russian positions. Putin on April 28 declared a three-day ceasefire to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union … Read more
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of US-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before it would comment on whether a proposed ceasefire was acceptable to Russia. After more than eight hours of talks with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco … Read more
The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that US President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and said Putin had no concrete plans yet to speak to Trump. The Washington Post first reported that the call had taken place, citing unidentified sources, and said that Trump had told Putin that … Read more
Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seeking to curb each other’s ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year, officials said on June 20. With no … Read more
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on June 14 to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which … Read more
Russia on Sunday wrapped up widely denounced regional and municipal elections, including in regions annexed from Ukraine, delivering strong support for President Vladimir Putin amidst criticism of vote rigging and Kyiv’s push to reclaim its land. The Council of Europe, Europe’s leading rights group, called the week-long vote a flagrant violation of international law, and … Read more
On the heels of a trip to Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is back in India for the third time in nine months, this time to meet finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations about global economic challenges like the increased threat of debt defaults facing low-income countries. Yellen will use her time … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets 8-year-old Raisat Akipova, from Derbent, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on July 4 and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his Finance Minister to ask … Read more
Russian traffic police officers block off a road as part of a counter-terrorist operation declared after an armed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group on the outskirts of Voronezh, Russia on June 24, 2023. A fuel depot was on fire in Russia’s southern city of Voronezh, the local governor announced after Moscow said the army … Read more