Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has not appeared in public since March 5, arrived Monday for a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Almazbek Atambayev. Negotiations at the Constantine Palace in the vicinity of St. Petersburg began two hours later. Putin appeared in front of television cameras together with the president ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not appeared in public since March 5, and this has given rise to “ridiculous rumors about the health, political future and personal life of the president,” writes The Financial Times. The authors of the article believe that “on Monday he will most likely...
Vladimir Putin considered the possibility of using nuclear weapons during the annexation of Crimea in the event of armed confrontation on the part of Western countries. The Russian President spoke about this in Andrei Kondrashov’s documentary “Crimea. The Way to the Homeland”, shown on Sunday by the Rossiya 1 TV channel. The film is timed...
The Russian military command announced another sudden test of combat readiness - this time in the Arctic. Officially, this was done by order of President Putin. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Monday that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief ordered on Monday morning to bring...
Extending US and EU sanctions against Russia is a commitment to a policy that has already proven unsuccessful and has no chance of success in the future, says American expert Clifford G. Gaddy in an article published by The Business Insider. The article was first published on the website...
Yesterday, under the walls of the Russian embassy in Kiev, unknown persons left a blue and yellow funeral wreath. The inscription on the ribbon indicates that the wreath was intended for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has not appeared in public for several days. Earlier, a number of media outlets reported about Putin's illness after ...
The documentary, which talks about the annexation of Crimea, is evidence of the Kremlin’s “deceitful approach” in the events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. This was stated by US State Department press secretary Jen Psaki. “What we have seen is evidence of the deceitful approach that we have already seen when Russia...
The Kremlin has stopped cooperation with the American PR company Ketchum, whose tasks included promoting Russia’s image in the West. The press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, explained the decision by cost-saving measures, as well as by the fact that the Kremlin considers image promotion pointless in the conditions of the “information war”...
After a recent lecture by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “one of my Russian acquaintances came up to me and said: “It was the FSB who asked me to ask Khodorkovsky that question,” columnist Ben Judah recounts in The Sunday Times. This person later explained to him: “I get a sixth of the funding...
Almost a year after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, which was not recognized by the world community, Russian television prepared a film about last year’s events. It contains for the first time the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that he gave the order to “start work on the return of Crimea,” immediately after...