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A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin strode onto a stage in the Kursk region to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the Soviet army’s proudest moments in World War II. Addressing a rapt audience that included soldiers fresh…
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has labelled Vladimir Putin’s response to the Wagner Group mutiny as ‘weak’, adding that the Russian president is losing control of his own people. Zelensky, under whom the Ukrainian forces have been…
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Lithuania’s counterintelligence service that a passport which was found during a search of Russian offices of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was used by his double to enter Lithuania in 2020. The aim of the body double, the service…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to “hold hands” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bolster strategic cooperation on their shared goal of building a powerful country, state media KCNA reported on Monday. Kim made the pledge…
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A Russian local politician was fined nearly $2,000 on Thursday for “discrediting the armed forces” by dangling spaghetti from his ears while listening to a speech by President Vladimir Putin, a human rights monitoring group said. Mikhail…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said India and China supported “peaceful dialogue” in Ukraine, a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping appeared to differ with him over the conflict at a summit in…
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As the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics approached, Konstantin Ernst, the floppy-haired intellectual who reigns as Vladmir Putin’s chief image maker, faced the challenge of a lifetime: to produce opening and closing ceremonies spectacular enough…
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