The building was renovated with help from associates of Putin, and the rental income is paid to a private company owned by a person whose name is the same as the maiden name of Putin’s former wife, corporate records show, according ...
Read More »‘Don’t you ever try to mess with Mr Putin’: parody video suggests Russian president will lead in ‘friendship’ with Trump
‘Give it up for Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin!’ – a parody song, published on Youtube, suggests, inclining that the Russian president is a tough guy. The video shows Putin as a “solid man” who “fights bears and demons with just bare ...
Read More »Donald Trump acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking: aide
Reince Priebus said Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports. “He accepts the fact ...
Read More »Donald Trump receives ‘very nice’ Christmas letter from Vladimir Putin
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday shared a letter he received from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who urged the next president “to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation” while offering Trump his “warmest Christmas and New Year ...
Read More »Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack – intelligence report
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior ...
Read More »Reuters: Trump says Putin better leader than Obama
Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that U.S. generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state, Reuters ...
Read More »Trump says he would consider recognizing Crimea as part of Russia
“I’m going to take a look at it,” Trump said in an interview broadcast on July 31 on the U.S. television program This Week, according to the RFE/RL report. “But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, ...
Read More »Why the Kremlin backs Trump – Reuters analysis
Russian state TV, which hews closely to the Kremlin’s world view, leaves little doubt about who Moscow supports in November’s U.S. presidential election: “The Donald,” Reuters reports. According to the edition “Putin has hailed Trump as “very talented”. The head ...
Read More »U.S. Secretary of State arrived in Moscow for talks on Ukraine, Syria
John Kerry will meet with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Moscow on Wednesday, Radio Free Europe reports. He will also hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 24. During the visit, Kerry is ...
Read More »US not to exchange Ukraine for Syria – Permanent Representative in UN
The U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power noted that the U.S. aimed to work with Russia on Syria constructively. However, trading, or the exchange of the Syrian issue for the Ukrainian one was out of question, Power ...
Read More »Putin: Russia could redeploy forces in Syria within hours if needed
Comments come days after announcing that Moscow’s military involvement in Syria would be wound down, the Guardian reports. “Of course, if required Russia will be ready in just a few hours to increase its forces in the region to a ...
Read More »Russia released golden iPhone to mark illegal annexation of Crimea
On Supremo Putin Crimea Gold Edition, trimmed in gold, shows the profile of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the phrase “Crimea in the hearts of men” and Patriotic slogans like: “the Crimea in the hearts of the people”, “For Crimea! For ...
Read More »Russia pulled out almost half of war planes based in Syria – Reuters analysis
Just under half of Russia’s fixed-wing strike force based in Syria has flown out of the country in the past two days, according to a Reuters calculation which suggests the Kremlin is accelerating its partial withdrawal. The precise number of ...
Read More »US investigation: ex-Putin aide Mikhail Lesin died of ‘blow to the head’
Former Russian press minister also had blunt force injuries to the neck, torso, arms and legs, the chief medical examiner said, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to BBC. Mikhail Lesin, former Russian press minister and head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding ...
Read More »Barack Obama: Russia’s position in the world “significantly diminished”
U.S. President Barack Obama said in one of interviews published on March 10 that the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin “invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad doesn’t suddenly make him a player,” Joinfo.ua reports with reference ...
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