Tag: Vladimir Putin
Russia’s Putin plans to visit Israel in January 2020
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he planned to visit Israel in January next year to inaugurate a memorial to World War...
PM Imran to visit Russia in September
--PM will attend Eastern Economic Forum as President Putin's special guest
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is due to visit Russia in September on the...
With a smile, Trump tells Putin ‘don’t meddle in the election’
MOSCOW: Much of Donald Trump's time in office has been overshadowed by allegations Moscow helped get him elected, but when it came to confronting Vladimir Putin...
Putin fires police generals over discredited case against journalist
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fired two police generals involved in a discredited criminal case against a journalist, an episode that sparked...
Putin says US guarantees unlikely to prompt N Korea to de-nuclearise
VLADIVOSTOK: Russian President Vladimir Putin said after holding his first face-to-face talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday that U.S. security...
Russia to hold biggest war games in nearly four decades
MOSCOW: Russia will next month hold its biggest war games in nearly four decades, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian news agencies on Tuesday,...
Putin meets Assad, calls for ‘political process’ on Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Thursday and said the "military success" in Syria allowed for...
DawnLeaks 2.0: Nawaz returns fire, draws ire
--Deposed PM tells local paper militant outfits still active in Pakistan, asks why trials of 2008 Mumbai attack accused haven’t been completed till now
--Indian...
Russia’s Putin sworn in for another six years in office
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six years as Russian president on Monday.
Standing in the Grand Kremlin Palace's ornately-decorated Andreyevsky Hall with...
Macron urges Putin to bring his influence to bear in Syria
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia’s Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Friday, with Macron calling on Russia to use its influence to...
Putin says hopes chemical watchdog meeting can put end to Skripal...
ANKARA: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hoped a planned meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog would help to defuse a...
President, PM congratulate Russian president on electoral victory
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi conveyed their heartiest felicitations to Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election in the presidential...
It’s ‘nonsense’ that Russia was behind Salisbury nerve agent attack, says...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it was nonsense to think that Moscow would have poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and...
Against Putin, seven candidates and one glaring absence
MOSCOW: Seven candidates are lined up to run against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sunday's election, but his primary political opponent will not be...
Putin excelling at polls despite lacklustre re-election campaign
MOSCOW: Running with a lacklustre slogan, no programme and refusing to debate his opponents, it sometimes seems like Russian President Vladimir Putin is not...
Putin, Trump to speak by phone for first time on Saturday
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are expected to hold their first phone call this Saturday, the TASS news agency cited...
People smearing Donald Trump are ‘worse than prostitutes’: Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin took a parting shot at the Obama administration, the other day, accusing it of trying to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimacy with...