Vladimir Putin

The virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit to be hosted by India on Tuesday is expected to focus on regional security, economic connectivity and trade, while welcoming Iran as the latest member of the Eurasian grouping.…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ concept has had a “visible effect” on the Indian economy, RT reported. RT is a Russian state-controlled international news television network. “Our…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow had paid out last year just over $1 billion to the Wagner mercenary group, which last week staged a failed mutiny. “The state paid to the Wagner group 86.262 billion rubles (around…
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Days after the short-lived revolt march by the Wagner Group against Russia’s military leadership that died down on the way to Moscow, President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation in a short speech with just as much vitriol as his last…
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An eerie calm fell on Russia after the dramatic end to an armed uprising that posed the greatest threat to Vladimir Putin’s almost quarter-century rule. The man who led the insurrection has gone uncharacteristically quiet. The president…
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Day after the Wagner group called off its mutiny against the Russian military leadership after its forced advanced to within a few hundred miles of Moscow, the Yevgeny Prigozhin-led mercenary private army had returned to the base under the…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday is set to host a group of African leaders who traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” after their trip to Ukraine. Seven African leaders — presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South…
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Former commander of separatist forces in Ukraine’s Donbas region Igor Girkin condemned Russian president Vladimir Putin comparing him to an Egyptian mummy. Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, who rose to prominence after 2014, has…
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Russia will begin moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Friday. Construction of storage facilities in Belarus will be completed by July 7-8,…
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Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the construction of a new bomb shelter at the country’s most elite hospital where high-ranking officials are treated, a government website said. A bomb shelter at the Moscow Central Clinical…
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