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Putin ‘intends’ to visit China in October
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit China in October, the Kremlin said Tuesday, as Russia aims to shore up ties with one of…
Ukraine: Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites
ODESA: Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa‘s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land. Khlapova…
Ukraine: Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites
ODESA (UKRAINE): Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa’s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land….
Vladimir Putin hosts Lukashenko, says Ukraine counter-offensive has failed
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine‘s counteroffensive “has failed” as he hosted Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, his close ally, for talks in St Petersburg on…
Girkin: Russia detains former separatist commander Girkin: lawyer to AFP
MOSCOW: Former separatist commander and nationalist blogger Igor Girkin, better known by his alias Igor Strelkov, has been detained after sharply criticising Russian President Vladimir…
Putin: Putin says Western weapons, support not helping Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Kyiv‘s counteroffensive, launched to push Russian troops back in the south and east of Ukraine, was failing…
Putin says Moscow would regard any aggression against Belarus as attack on Russia
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia‘s neighbour and…
Putin to skip BRICS summit in South Africa under arrest threat
JOHANNESBURG: Vladimir Putin, who is under an international arrest warrant, will not attend a BRICS nations summit in South Africa next month, the country’s presidency…
Crimea Bridge: Crimea bridge: Why it’s important and what happened to it
Traffic on the road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula was stopped early on Monday due to an “emergency situation,” the Russian-backed head of…
China intensifies military drills with Russia amid US sanctions
President Xi Jinping has resisted crossing Washington’s red lines over arming Russia’s war machine in Ukraine. But that hasn’t stopped China edging closer to Moscow’s…