Tag: Vladmir Putin
NATO calls on Russia to destroy new missile, warns of response
BRUSSELS: NATO urged Russia on Tuesday to destroy a new missile before an August deadline and save a treaty that keeps land-based nuclear warheads...
Uncertainties deepens about upcoming Trump, Putin meeting
NEW YORK: The shadow of Helsinki lingers. Uncertainties about Russia’s past and future election interference continue. And tensions are high over hot spots from...
Putin bans Russian flights to crisis-hit Georgia
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia, starting in July, after violent clashes in the neighbouring...
Putin gives Xi ice cream on his 66th birthday
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping celebrated his 66th birthday on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Xi considers a close friend and who...
Putin says Russia didn’t meddle in US vote, despite evidence
ST. PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reaffirmed his staunch denial that his government meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election despite the...
Kremlin contradicts Trump statement on alleged Venezuela drawdown
The Kremlin on Tuesday contradicted a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump and said it had not officially informed him about the activities of...
Russia tells Trump ‘most of their people’ have left Venezuela
President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia told the United States it had removed “most of their people” from Venezuela, where Moscow has...
Moscow, Islamabad set to upgrade ties as PTI comes to power
--Russian President Putin tells newly-elected PM Khan that he wishes to improve relations with Pakistan
BEIJING: Following a series of high-profile visits in the past two...
Putin promises improvement in living standards, decline in defence allocation
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would repay the trust voters had placed in him by working toward creating jobs, raising...
Putin order for bomb threat plane to be downed in 2014...
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the...
West-Russia relations tense as Russians prepare to vote
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin's pre-election nuclear sabre-rattling has raised the stakes in Moscow's confrontation with the West on the eve of his fourth Kremlin term.
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Helped evacuate 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta, says Russia
MOSCOW: The Russian military has announced that it has aided in the evacuation of 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday. The civilians were...
Kremlin says no interest in US arms race in ‘invincible weapons’...
MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Friday said Russia will not be part of a new arms race as the United States and NATO voiced concern...
Daily ‘humanitarian pause’ in Eastern Ghouta, orders Putin
DOUMA: Russia called a daily “humanitarian pause” in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, bowing to pressure to halt the carnage in the rebel-held enclave where bombardments eased...
Syria’s Assad says Putin has not talked about political transition
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has never talked to him about leaving power,...
