Tag: Putin

Putin’s Islamabad visit would trigger a South Asian revamp Most of us are well-acquainted with the game of Russian roulette, even if some of us...

Two members of the punk band Pussy Riot charged with hooliganism after singing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in a Russian church went on hunger...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his government to put aside billions of dollars in next year’s budget to protect the country’s vulnerable economy...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Tuesday during a rare trip...

Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Russia Will be Free" rallied in Moscow on Tuesday against President Vladimir Putin's third term despite a police...

Police armed with assault rifles raided the homes of Russia’s top protest leaders on Monday in an unusually blunt show of force on the...

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday defended Vladimir Putin’s “moral” right to return for an historic third Kremlin term and denied having no real...

President Vladimir Putin visits China Tuesday on the first Asia trip of his new Kremlin mandate aiming to tighten an increasingly close alliance that...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday moved seven former cabinet ministers to his Kremlin administration in defiance of pressure for new faces from street...

President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on a new government Monday that kept his most trusted allies in charge of finance while leaving tested...

Russia’s new President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday won parliamentary approval for his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev to become prime minister, as protesters tried new tactics...

Russia’s newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin on Monday proposed his Kremlin predecessor Dmitry Medvedev as the country’s new prime minister under a job swap...

Vladimir Putin held his first meeting Monday as newly-confirmed Russian president with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge, focusing on preparations for...

Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's president in a glittering Kremlin ceremony on Monday, starting a six-year term in which he faces growing...

Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called NATO a relic of the Cold War but said he supported letting the alliance use a Russian...

Vladimir Putin urged his compatriots to unite to build a strong Russia Wednesday after a tense election contest, in a speech to parliament overshadowed...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague called Tuesday for allegations of irregularities in Russia’s presidential election to be “thoroughly investigated”, after Vladimir Putin was returned...