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Alexei Zimin, A UK-Based Russian Chef Who Criticised Vladimir Putin, Found Dead In Serbia Hotel

A Russian television chef, who was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, has been found dead in Serbia, the BBC reported.




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Queen Elizabeth II, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin

Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully in Scotland on September 8. The crown passed to her son, Prince Charles, who took the throne name Charles III. His name is translated into Russian as Karl III, which is due to historic peculiarities of name translations. Elizabeth II and Boris Yeltsin Despite the fact that Elizabeth II ascended the throne back in 1952, the Queen was in no hurry to pay an official visit to the Soviet Union and then Russia. Her historical trip to Russia took place only after the collapse of the USSR. On October 17, 1994, Elizabeth II landed in Moscow. First deputy chairman of the government, Oleg Soskovets, welcomed the Queen. Directly from the airport, they went to the Kremlin in a royal Rolls-Royce, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin was waiting for them.




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El Kremlin niega una conversación telefónica entre Vladimir Putin y Donald Trump

La página web del Kremlin precisa que la última conversación telefónica entre ambos mandatarios tuvo lugar en julio de 2020 Leer




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Reforma pensional, Nicolás Petro y Vladimir Putin

La Luciérnaga se enciende para hablar de la reforma pensional. Además, le contamos sobre los diálogos de paz. También, ¿Qué ha pasado con Nicolás Petro?La Luciérnaga, un espacio de humor, análisis y opinión de Caracol Radio que acompaña desde hace 30 años a sus oyentes en el regreso a casa.




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Vladimir Putin's savage EU swipe exposed: 'You're so weak!'



VLADIMIR PUTIN appeared to mock the EU in an eye-opening documentary, claiming Russia is "the only independent nation" whereas countries depending on the bloc become weak and "unpredictable".





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China and Russia must work together to defeat Covid-19, Xi Jinping tells Vladimir Putin

China and Russia must fulfil their duties as recognised world leaders and work together to defeat Covid-19, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday, in the latest show of solidarity between the long-term allies.Likening the global health crisis to the second world war, which in China is often referred to as a war against fascism, Xi said that Beijing would continue to provide support to Moscow as it battled the deadly disease.“Being among the main victor powers…




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Donald Trump urges nuclear talks with China in call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin

US President Donald Trump called on Thursday for involving China in new arms control talks with Russia, telling Russian leader Vladimir Putin that they need to avoid a “costly arms race,” the White House said.“President Trump reaffirmed that the United States is committed to effective arms control that includes not only Russia, but also China, and looks forward to future discussions to avoid a costly arms race,” a statement said.Trump and Putin spoke by phone, also discussing the coronavirus…




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Coronavirus scuppers Vladimir Putin’s grand plans, but can he bounce back?

The bombastic military parade through Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday was slated to be the spectacle of the year on the Kremlin’s calendar.Standing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron, President Vladimir Putin would have overseen a 90-minute procession of Russia’s military might, showcasing 15,000 troops and the latest hardware.But that was before the coronavirus pandemic.Now, military jets will roar over an eerily quiet Moscow, streaming red, white and blue…




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Vladimir Putin says Russia may need army to help battle coronavirus crisis after record daily rise in cases

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Boris Johnson urges Russian President Vladimir Putin to help world find Covid-19 vaccine in VE Day phone call

Boris Johnson has asked Vladimir Putin if Russia would help play a more integrated role in global efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.




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Measuring National Power: Is Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Decline?

As Vladimir Putin embarks on another six-year term as Russia’s president, Western pundits and policymakers are left wondering whether his reelection means that Moscow’s muscular policies toward America and other Western powers will continue or even escalate. But what is the reality of Russian power in the Putin era? Is Russia a rising, declining or stagnating power? How does its standing in the global order compare to other nations, including the United States, China and European powers?




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Is Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Decline? We Figured Out How to Measure ‘National Power.’

Where does Russia stand as Vladimir Putin embarks on another six-year term as president? Analysts have been trying to figure out whether Russia has been rising, declining or stagnating since Putin ascended to power in 1999.




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When Does Vladimir Putin’s Russia Send In Troops?

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s first military intervention abroad, in Georgia. Since then there have been two more, continuing to this day, in Ukraine and Syria in 2014 and 2015, respectively. And still it’s worth asking: When does Putin authorize the use of military force, overtly or covertly, against other countries and why?




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On Vladimir Putin’s move to stay in power in Russia

       




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The Six Personalities of Vladimir Putin


Senior Fellows Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy discuss their book, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin in a five part podcast series.

Fiona Hill: Putin’s Personalities Leveraged to Boost Russia

Fiona Hill: Putin’s History in KGB Leads to “Case Officer” Personality

Fiona Hill and Cliff Gaddy: The Outsider Influenced Putin’s “Free Market” Personality

Clifford Gaddy: Putin the History Man and Survivalist

Fiona Hill: Putin’s Statist Personality: Restoring the Greatness of Russia

In the book, Hill and Gaddy write that Russian President Vladmir Putin’s style of rule is influenced by his identities as a Statist, a Man of History, a Free Marketeer, a Survivalist, an Outsider, and a Case Officer; these are distinct personalities, they note, that interact and affect policy decisions. On February 6, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings hosted an event for the launch of Mr. Putin with a discussion featuring the authors.

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Vladimir Putin DENIES tampering in presidential election

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied interfering in the U.S. elections, and he did it by using the famous 'Read my lips' quote by George H.W. Bush, although saying it was Reagan's.




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Democrats demand Trump hand over notes of his one-one-one meetings with Vladimir Putin

The House Oversight Committee chairman is demanding the White House hand over records of Trump-Putin meetings, and wants to know if Trump destroyed a translator's notes.




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Theresa May confronts Vladimir Putin over Salisbury attack and tells him to hand over the suspects

Theresa May is holding face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan in an attempt to thaw relations between Russia and Britain as she prepares to quit as PM next month.




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Vladimir Putin taunts Britain over the Tory leadership race

Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the race to succeed Theresa May as he questioned how a democratic country could install a new prime minister without a national vote.




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Oscar winning director Oliver Stone asks Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter's godfather

The Platoon director, pictured left with Putin and inset with his daughter, spoke to Putin on June 19 for his latest film about Ukraine.




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Vladimir Putin 'likely' approved of Salisbury Novichok attack

The Russian president's involvement in the deadly poisoning in Salisbury is understood to have been assessed by British intelligence agencies as well as Scotland Yard.




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Vladimir Putin casts his ballot in Russian local elections

Putin (pictured today) voted in Moscow elections which have taken on a rare significance after a series of candidates were detained and barred from the ballot, sparking mass protests.




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Vladimir Putin's party loses more than a third of its seats in Moscow elections

The poll on Sunday suggests a tactical voting strategy pushed by opponents may have worked, in order to punish the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin's (pictured) ruling United Russia party.




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Vladimir Putin backs plan for F1 to race in St Petersburg

EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN MCEVOY: Vladimir Putin and Formula One's power brokers are in advanced talks about staging a race in St Petersburg.




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If you want transcripts of Donald Trump's calls to Vladimir Putin you'll have to ask us: Kremlin

Asked about Democrats' push for the publication of Putin-Trump calls, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded that 'the publication is possible only on mutual accord.'




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Why Vladimir Putin could allow development of 'designer babies'

Vladimir Putin is the only one who can green-light the use of the controversial gene-editing technology, and will have the ear of his daughter Maria Vorontsova, an endocrinologist.




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Smiling Hassan Rouhani of Iran and a far less impressed Vladimir Putin pose for bizarre selfie

The Iranian president smiled and looked at ease as he sat in front of the Russian premier, who appeared characteristically stern (pictured).




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Shaman on trek to Moscow to 'exorcise' Vladimir Putin vows to re-start his journey

Siberian shaman Alexander 'Sasha' Gabyshev, 60, nicknamed the 'new Rasputin' has vowed to restart his two-year journey to 'exorcise' Vladimir Putin after he was arrested last month.




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Vladimir Putin says Wikipedia should be banned and replaced with a Russian version

'It's better to replace it with the Great Russian Encyclopedia in electronic form…here it will be in any case, reliable information in a good modern form.' Putin said in Moscow on Tuesday.




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Donald Trump says he 'would love to go' as Vladimir Putin invites him to Moscow

President Donald Trump said he is considering heading to Moscow to join the May 9 celebrations of the victory over the Nazis, saying he was 'thinking about it.'




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Vladimir Putin sets up Russian rival to Wikipedia after branding the online encyclopaedia unreliable

The new site costing £20.7million will be a web version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia and show 'reliable information in a good, modern way'.




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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping open giant gas link between the two countries

Vladamir Putin and Xi Jinping discussed the new 'Power of Siberia' pipeline during an elaborate televised ceremony. The 3,000km pipeline will supply China with 38billion cubic feet of gas annually.




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Vladimir Putin 'still uses obsolete Windows XP'

A Kremlin press release last month showed Putin at his Moscow residence, sitting by a screen with a bright blue taskbar - suggesting that the computer was still running Windows XP.




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Vladimir Putin rushes to Trump's defense over impeachment

The Russian president told a Moscow news conference that Trump was likely to survive a Senate trial after the House of Representatives charged him with abuse of power last night.




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Former Trump aides say Vladimir Putin convinced president Ukraine tried to sabotage his 2016 victory

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly persuaded President Trump that Ukraine meddled in 2016 election during a July 2017 meeting in Hamburg, Germany.




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Maxine Waters claims Donald Trump will invite Vladimir Putin to the White House

Maxine Waters, a vocal Donald Trump critic, said POTUS would invite Vladimir Putin to the White House if he is not removed from office by the Senate and called him 'Putin's puppet.'




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Vladimir Putin's TV channel boasts about nuclear-powered cruise missile which killed five

Russia 24, a state-owned Russian news channel, has boasted of the capabilities of the nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik, known as Skyfall to NATO, which has 'unmatched' power.




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Vladimir Putin's new changes are an audaciously disguised power grab, writes MARK ALMOND 

MARK ALMOND: He likes to take the world - and Russians - by surprise. Vladimir Putin's lengthy State of Russia speech yesterday was expected to be the usual tedious outline of statistics.




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Boris Johnson slams Vladimir Putin over Salisbury in talks

Boris Johnson warned Vladimir Putin there is no prospect of normal relations between the countries until Moscow stops 'undermining the safety of our citizens and collective security'.




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Vladimir Putin submits his 'rule for life' constitutional changes to Russia's parliament

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has submitted to parliament a package of constitutional amendments widely seen as an attempt to secure his grip on power after his term ends in 2024.




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Russia's parliament approves Vladimir Putin's constitutional changes

Russia's parliament on Thursday approved a package of constitutional amendments in a move widely seen as an attempt by President Vladimir Putin to stay in power past the end of his term.




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Russians are pranked into saying what they really think of Vladimir Putin

Bashir Dokhov fixed a large portrait of Putin to the lift in a Moscow residential block and recorded people's shocked reactions as they entered the lift.




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Vladimir Putin says 'marriage is a union of a man and woman'

At a meeting discussing amendments to the Russian constitution, Vladimir Putin said: 'As long as I'm president, we will have ''dad'' and ''mom''.'




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Vladimir Putin denies years of rumours that he uses body doubles

Vladimir Putin was asked to confirm or deny years of rumours that he uses body doubles to avoid being assassinated, claiming that he was advised to do it back in 2000 but turned down the idea.




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Vladimir Putin's armed forces are slammed as sexist for holding 'ridiculous' beauty contests

The Russian missile force - charged with guarding the country's nuclear weapons - has held a Makeup Under Camouflage event and female paratroopers have been required to sew.




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Vladimir Putin urges G20 to work together to find coronavirus vaccine

The Russian leader used the video conference to demand a 'green corridor' in which key technology could be shared regardless of sanctions such as those on Moscow.




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Vladimir Putin is accompanied by SIX bodyguards while going to the BATHROOM

The Russian leader, 67, was filmed leaving the bathroom in Paris's Elysee Palace alongside six armed bodyguards. Putin was in Paris for a summit to discuss a ceasefire with Ukraine.




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Russia hired British politicians to 'go after' enemies of Vladimir Putin claims rights campaigner

Bill Browder, a human rights campaigner and former fund manager in Russia, made the explosive allegations in his testimony to the intelligence and security committee.




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New Channel 4 documentary reveals how Vladimir Putin rose to become Russia's mobster in chief

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.